Rapoport Center Announces Launch of
Sissy Farenthold Online Exhibit

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the public launch of Frances T. 'Sissy' Farenthold: Her Work for Human Rights, an online exhibit detailing Sissy Farenthold's activism for women, peace, and development in the 1980s.

The site was developed in collaboration with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the repository where Sissy's papers are housed. The site features digitized documents from those papers, including correspondence, speeches, ephemera, and other items she collected at peace movement events and protests. We would especially like to highlight "Women's Search for Peace", a speech she gave in 1988, which is the basis for the website. The site also includes photos and video interviews with Sissy and with her cousin Genevieve Vaughan.

Of course, this site only features one part of Sissy's incredible career and ongoing commitment to human rights and justice. It is part of a larger initiative to highlight various parts of the physical collection of her work.

We are appreciative of the many people who worked on the website, particularly Gina Bastone, a recent graduate of UT's Information School, who conceived of and coordinated much of the project. We are especially grateful to Sissy Farenthold for the time and energy she has dedicated to helping us uncover the history of the international women's peace movement and her participation in it. We are fortunate to have Sissy as a member of our advisory board and to benefit from her invaluable inspiration and guidance.

We hope you enjoy the site!

Rapoport Center Proudly Announces
The Charles Moyer Summer Human Rights Fellowship

Beginning in 2012, one student each year from the University of Texas School of Law will be named the Charles Moyer Summer Human Rights Fellow, and will be awarded a stipend to serve as a legal intern with a non-governmental or intergovernmental human rights organization. Recipients will be selected based on their ability and commitment to pursue the Center's mission of promoting the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally. The fellowship honors the life and work of Charles Moyer, whose professional career has been devoted to the international protection of human rights, and who was the first Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The fellowship is made possible by the generous contribution of Scott Hendler of HendlerLaw, PC, who completed the first post-graduate internship at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 1983-1984 under the supervision and guidance of then Secretary of the Court Charles Moyer. Learn more.

In Memoriam:
Bernard Rapoport

1917 - 2012

It is with great sadness that we at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice note the loss of Bernard ("B") Rapoport, who died late Thursday night at the age of 94. It is hard for us to imagine a world without B, whose passionate commitment to justice and giant heart have had a profound impact on so many people, both locally and globally.

The Rapoport Center is but one manifestation of B's life-long dedication to academic inquiry and social justice. We are grateful for, and honored and daunted by, the very tall challenge of directing a center in his and Audre's name. We will do our best to do justice to his memory.

We appreciate the many memories and condolences that we have received from people who have been connected to the Rapoport Center over the years. We invite you to post those on our Facebook page. We put together a small online exhibit on B and Audre last year, which attempts to describe the larger-than-life man.

We extend our deepest sympathy to B's family and many friends. We will always remember him.