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The Human Rights Institute
has two core missions: first, to coordinate human rights initiatives
at the University of Connecticut and support
faculty and students who study human rights; and second to promote
a unique approach to international human rights scholarship based
upon contextual and multidisciplinary research in the social sciences,
humanities and law.
In 2001, the University of Connecticut designated
human rights as a university priority, and this was the culmination of a number of human
rights activities at the university in recent years. The Thomas
J. Dodd Center, founded in 1995, contains the Nuremberg archives of
former Nuremberg Executive Counsel and Connecticut Senator Thomas J.
Dodd. The University of Connecticut has the only UNESCO Chair
in Human Rights in the USA, and the UNESCO Chair is also director of
the UConn-ANC partnership. Since 2000, the university has hosted
the Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights which
brings leading human rights scholars to the UConn campus for one semester
per year to teach and give a public lecture on key developments in
the field. In 2001, an interdisciplinary Human Rights Minor
was established at the university and presently has over 30 students.
Finally, the Human Rights Initiative has for the past 3 years hosted
talks, conferences, discussions, and lectures on economic, social,
children’s, women’s and civil rights in the United States
and internationally.
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