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 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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Witness to Guantánamo Digital Collection - 153 Video Interviews in the Human Rights Archive |
Witness to Guantanamo includes one hundred fifty-three video files of interviews with 149 former detainees and others – detainee family members, attorneys, chaplains, guards, interrogators, interpreters, government officials, human rights advocates, medical personnel, and journalists -- who witnessed the impact of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in the post-911 years. Witness to Guantanamo is the world’s most comprehensive collection of Guantanamo stories.
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Call for Submissions: Juan E. Méndez Book Award |
The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America honors the leadership and legacy of Juan E. Méndez, a champion of justice who has devoted his life to the defense of human rights. Méndez is the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and current Professor of Human Rights Law at American University. The award recognizes an outstanding book of non-fiction, including graphic works, published in English on human rights, democracy and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The deadline for entries is November 15, 2021. There is no entry form. Publishers, authors or readers may send nominations and a single hard copy of the book. Read more.
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Combatting Crimes Against Humanity in China: Fighting to Protect the Human Rights of Uyghurs |
Please join us for a conversation between Professor David Schanzer and Sophie Richardson, China Director of Human Rights Watch.
Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has overseen the organization’s research and advocacy on China since 2006, and has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China’s foreign policy since 1954’s Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College.
Co-sponsored by the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the Department of Religious Studies, the Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Additional co-sponsors include the Duke Divinity School, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic.
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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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