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The Ecuador Report
The Rapoport Center’s report on Afro-Ecuadorian rights is the third in a series of reports on Afro-descendant land rights in South America. The report, Forgotten Territories, Unrealized Rights: Rural Afro-Ecuadorians and their Fight for Land, Equality, and Security, is the product of a nearly year-long research project conducted by the Rapoport Center, and includes the findings of a delegation that visited Ecuador in March 2009. The delegation was comprised of the Center’s director, Professor Karen Engle, and students from The School of Law, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, and LBJ School of Public Affairs. Read more...
Press Releases
- New Report Finds that Ecuador Fails to Protect the Land Rights of Afro-Ecuadorian Communities
November 10 , 2009
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice has released a report documenting Ecuador's failures to protect the land rights of rural Afro-Ecuadorians guaranteed by the Ecuadorian constitution and international human rights law. - Human Rights Clinic at UT Law releases Abra Pampa report
(Spanish version)
October 28 , 2009
Residents of Abra Pampa, Argentina, a poor and largely indigenous mining community near the Bolivian border, suffer dire mining-related health and environmental consequences, says the University of Texas School of Law Human Rights Clinic. - Activist discusses Congo violence
October 28 , 2009
Murhabazi Namegabe, the director of the Volunteer Office in the Service of Children and Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, addressed UT students on the plight of child soldiers in the country in a lecture organized by The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Happy Hour Speaker Series. - Kristine Huskey on Guantanamo
October 19 , 2009
UT law professor and Strauss fellow, Kristine A Huskey, will discuss her book--a memoir about her experiences representing Guantanamo detainees and her unconventional journey to finding her passion for human rights--and the future of Guantanamo and preventative detention. See video of the talk. - 2009 Audre Rapoport Prize Winner:
Sherief Gaber
October 19, 2009
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is pleased to announce Sherief Gaber, and his article, Verbal Abuse: Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric and Violence Against Women, as the 2009 winner of the 5 th Annual Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women. Gaber will be awarded a $1,000 prize. - Rapoport Center Announces 2009–2010 Human Rights Scholars
October 8, 2009
Students Matthew Dunlap, Melvin Huang, Maka Hutson, and Brandon Hunter were selected by a committee of international law faculty on the basis of their academic credentials, leadership skills, and dedication to human rights work. -
Rapoport Center announces 3rd World AIDS Day Conference.
October 6, 2009
HIV/AIDS: Human Rights, Archives, and Memory
December 1, 2009 at the Texas Union.
Upcoming Events
- 3rd annual World AIDS Day Conference
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sponsored by the Health and Human Rights Working Group of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, this year's conference will explore aspects of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic that concern issues of public memory, human rights, documentation, and representation. - Annual Conference: "Walls: What They Make and What They Break"
February 25-26, 2010
Joint Conference with The Texas International Law Journal
Walls, symbolic and real, have consequences not only for people and polities, but for the surrounding – and enclosed – national and cultural environments as well. Walls impact both ways of thinking and modalities of living. The conference will convene a group of interdisciplinary thinkers who have researched the recent history of walls – made, unmade, in the making – and their consequences on the geographies of nation states and their neighbors, of communities both domestic and international, virtual and everyday.
