Spotlight Archive
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Between April 26 and May 1, the Humanities Institute and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies welcomed Shirin Ebadi, Iranian attorney and human rights activist, who gave a public lecture and participated in several public forums on issues ranging from U.S.-Iranian relations to women's and children's rights in the globalized 21st century. The Rapoport Center was pleased to collaborate on a public roundtable discussion, entitled “Law, Locality, and International Human Rights” on April 29, 2009. Watch video of the discussion (Windows Media Player). |
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Annual Review 2007-2008 now available! Click here to download a copy (PDF). |
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September 24: Rapoport Center releases a report on land rights of Afro-Brazilian quilombo communities. Read more. |
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September 11-12: Rapoport Center hosts film screening and panel discussions to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chilean coup. Read more. |
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June 13: UT Working Group Alleges Texas/Mexico Border Wall Violates Human Rights! Read more. |
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April 17-18: "Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace: Fifteen Years after the El Salvador Peace Accords" Conference website launched! Read the press release. |
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March 7-16, 2008: Fact Finding Delegation: Afro-descendent Land Rights in Brazil Read the press release on the recent trip here. |
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Article in The New Yorker Highlights UT Law Immigration Clinic's Represenation of Detainee Familes at Hutto Facility |
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Center Director Karen Engle Discusses Recent Guatemalan Consitutional Court Decision |
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April 4: UT Medical Branch Doctor Discusses Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico Read the press release. |
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March 27, 2008: Brown Bag Lunch on Spring Break Human Rights Trips to Latin America Read more about the trips to Brazil and Colombia. |
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March 20, 2008: Center Steering Committee member Professor Shannon Speed spoke about "Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas." |
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March 4: UT English Professor to Speak at UT Law about South African Activist and Writer |
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February 19: Human Rights Lawyer to Speak at UT Law about US Torture Video: "The US and Torture: History and Jurisprudence" |
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Center Associate Director Ariel Dulitzky Participates in a Judges' Seminar on Judicial Reperations for the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia |
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February 21-23: Fifth Annual Conference on Activist Scholarship |
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Center Interns Act Local Think Global |
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The Daily Texan's coverage of Happy Hour speaker Alvaro Restrepo |
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Steering Committee member Neville Hoad, receives President's Associates Teaching Award |
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December 1st World AIDS Day event, organized by Rapoport Center Steering Committee member Neville Hoad and sponsored by the Center, focuses on global awareness and advocacy. Event program. Director Karen Engle's introductory statement. |
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Associate Director Ariel Dulitzky recently invited by the Colombian National Commission on Reparations and Reconciliation to conduct training and carry out consulations on how to address racial discrimination in the context of transitional justice. |
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On Nov. 29, Director Karen Engle spoke at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) on a panel entitled, “Gaining Traction: Anthropology's Engagement with Human Rights.” Professor Engle was invited along with Joe Saunders from Human Rights Watch, to offer perspectives of human rights organizations. Steering Committee member Charles Hale also spoke on a presidential panel entitled “Indigenous Experience Today.” |
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Professor Dulitzky recently participated in and delivered a presentation on the Inter-American System and Human Rights Clinics during a meeting of the Latin American Network of Human Rights Clinics in Mexico City, where participants from over twenty Latin American universities. |
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Rapoport Center Associate Director Ariel Dulitzky highlighted on UT Law home page. |
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On October 16, 2007, Rapoport Center Director, Karen Engle, participated in the SMU Deadman School of Law's symposium, ''Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform: Civil Rights in the 21st Century." |
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On October 17 the Rapoport Center hosted Charles Moyer, first Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. For details of the event read The Daily Texan article by Darius Khosravian. Listen to the presentation here. |
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Rapoport Center Director Karen Engle and guest speaker, Professor Daniel Bonilla presented, "What Does it Mean to Be 'For' Human Rights?: The Case of Afro-Colombian Rights," at the First Unitarian Universalist Church (Austin) on October 7, 2007. |
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Rapoport Center Associate Director Ariel Dulitzky recently participated in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ''Proyecto Piloto sobre la formación y los mecanismos de seguimiento a la capacitación en derechos humanos en relación con el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos.'' To learn more about the project click here. (In Spanish) |
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The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice names three Human Rights Scholars for 2007-2008. |
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The UT Law Immigration Clinic's work focusing on the T. Don Hutto Residential Center and the detention of immigrant children and asylum seekers leads to a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Read the Clinic's Cover Letter and Briefing Paper to the IACHR. |
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On September 27, 2007 the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School hosted Rapoport Center Director Karen Engle, where she delivered a presentation entitled, Indigenous Roads to Development: Self Determination, Culture and Human Rights. |
