Celebrating a Successful 2021 at DHRC |
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DHRC and FHI at a post-event dinner with Sophie Richardson, in conversation about the global refugee crises, and human rights advocacy work around the world, and at Duke University. |
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Recap: DHRC - Vision and Mission |
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Job Alert: DHRC is Hiring a Program Coordinator |
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Are you or someone you know passionate about human rights, and working with students & faculty on curricula and projects?
The Duke Human Rights Center is hiring for a program coordinator.
Click here to learn more about this exciting opportunity and apply now!
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DHRC Event Highlights 2021 |
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Combatting Crimes Against Humanity in China - Fighting to Protect the Human Rights of Uyghurs |
Sophie Richardson was welcomed to Duke by American Grand Strategy and the Duke Human Rights Center on October 27, 2021 to talk about Combatting Crimes Against Humanity in China.
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Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch, which recently stated China is committing crimes against humanity for its detention of Uyghurs.
She was welcomed to Duke by American Grand Strategy and the Duke Human Rights Center on October 27, 2021, and she began her talk by discussing the history of our understandings of the detention of the Uyghur people. Working with the Stanford Law School Human Rights Clinic, Richardson published in May of this year an assessment of human rights in China relating to Xinjiang, the border community where much of the detention is taking place. They based their arguments relating to crimes against humanity off international human rights law and binding treaties.
The event brought everyone a new human rights and legal perspective of the detention of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Read More.
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Screening Of The Critically Acclaimed Documentary, FLEE |
On November 30, 2021, the DHRC held a screening of FLEE - A documentary, followed by a panel discussion. Based on a true story, FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi and his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
Following the screening, there was a panel discussion moderated by DHRC Faculty Co-chair Robin Kirk with panelists:
- Ellen Andrews – NC Area Director, Church World Service
- Faridah Bahume – former refugee from DRC, Cultural Orientation Specialist, Church World Service
- Deb Reisinger, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of the Practice in Romance Studies
More details of the event here.
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Book Event with Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret |
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In this powerful book in February 2021, Catherine Coleman Flowers tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Learn more about the book.
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2021 Human Rights Research Grant Recipient Updates |
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Celebrating the 2021 Human Rights Certificate Graduates |
This year we celebrated 13 Human Rights Certificate graduates! Congratulations to Eritrea Temesghen, Sarah Kane, Naraya Price, Zara Porter, Jordan Diamond, De’Ja Wood, Allayne Thomas, Daniel Raftis, Cecilia Cardelle, Ce’Ondra Ellison, Stefanie Pousoulides, Olivia Kramer and Multy Oliver! We invite everyone to learn more about these incredible students on our website.
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Human Rights Research Grant Recipients 2021 |
The recipients for this year’s Human Rights Research Grant included five undergraduates and one graduate student with projects ranging from water and sanitation access in Egypt and Sudan to environmental injustices in U.S. prisons. Students will also explore eugenics and reproductive rights in North Carolina, access to healthcare for African migrants in Italy, and water desalination governance in Southern California. Congratulations to Sama Elmahdy (’22), Hadeel Hamoud (’22), Isaiah Mason (’22), Cydney Livingston (’22), Liyu Woldemichael (’22), and Ekta Patel (4th year Ph.D. student.). Read more. |
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The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s legacy and vision for a just and equal world will be amplified by a $1.6 million, 3-year grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Since 2012, the Pauli Murray Center has worked to lift up the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, a twentieth-century human rights activist, legal scholar, poet, Episcopal priest, and multiracial Black, LGBTQ+ community member. Read More.
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My Name is Pauli Murray - Now on Amazon Prime |
Overlooked by history, Pauli Murray was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. This documentary is a portrait of their impact as a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world. As of Oct 2021, the documentary is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Watch Documentary.
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The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings about global human rights issues..
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