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Human Rights Institute in the News

 

2008

UConn Advance - January 28, 2008
Philosopher studies theory and foundations of human rights. by Sherry Fisher - When Serena Parekh was an undergraduate at McGill ...

UConn Advance - January 22, 2008
Research Foundation large grants, fall 2007
Previous grant listings can be found on the Grants archive ...
Shareen Hertel, Political Science, Human Rights and Public Opinion: From ...

UConn Advance - September 10, 2007
Two groups will receive Dodd Prize in human rights. by Richard Veilleux - The third biennial Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International ...

UConn Advance - October 15, 2007
Oral history project on anti-apartheid struggle completed. A substantial, wide-ranging oral history of the ... growing collection of human rights materials, says Thomas Wilsted, ..

UConn Advance - April 16, 2007
Scholars still disagree on concept of race, speaker says.
by Michael Kirk - The term Caucasian was first used to describe
white ... Richard Wilson, director of UConn’s Human Rights Institute

 

2007

Weeklong Festival Celebrates Human Rights, Daily Campus, April 9, 2007
When members attended the first Idealists United meeting at its start in September of 2006, no one had any idea of what would arise from that meeting.

April 5, 2007, Press Release,
The Human Rights Institute wishes to register its strong objections to the event scheduled for Saturday April 7th by the UConn-Turkish Students Association which includes the showing of a 2005 documentary film "Sari Gelin"….

UConn Advance - April 2, 2007 - Student selected for internship in ...
Richard Wilson, Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and director of the Human Rights Institute, says Friedlander is one of the many talented ... Hartford Courant, UConn Show Offers Fashion Free Of Sweatshop OriginsApril 2, 2007 ...by being consumers," said organizer Catherine Dagon, 21, of East Hartford. Dagon, who organized the fashion show to complete her...trying to do a light, spring, natural theme," Dagon said. "No logos, no patterns, everything sort... / Courant Staff Writer ...

UConn Advance - March 26, 2007 - Scholars to discuss science ...
The day concludes with brief remarks at 5 p.m. by Richard Wilson, the Judi and Gary Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and director of the Human ... advance.uconn.edu/2007/070326/07032603.htm

Groups Hold 'Die-in For Darfur' To Raise Genocide Awareness, Daily Campus, March 22, 2007
Spurred on by student action, including protests, the UConn Foundation has decided to ask its fund managers to remove $1.5 million worth of investments that are connected to Sudan.

UConn Advance - March 19, 2007 – University’s human rights efforts ...
When the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center was dedicated in 1995, the ceremony inaugurated a year-long series of events devoted to the theme of human rights. ...

 

2006

UConn Advance - December 4, 2006 - Human rights scholar ...
It's not surprising that Shareen Hertel would develop a passion for human rights. I grew up in a family that was involved in the American civil rights ...

UConn Advance - November 13, 2006 - Crop of new books published by ...
The new authors in political science are assistant professors Shareen Hertel ( Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activist ) ...

UConn Advance - September 25, 2006 - Human Rights Institute starts ...
As the University's Human Rights Institute gears up for its annual fall conference and its students immerse themselves in research, the Institute welcomes a ...

UConn Advance - March 20, 2006 - University to publish human ... The Journal of Human Rights, a major international scholarly publication, will be based at UConn now that Richard Hiskes, professor of political science, ...

UConn Advance - March 13, 2006 - New sociology course to explore ...
New sociology course to explore human rights in the United States ... The course will begin with a discussion on the meaning of human rights and justice and ..

 

2005

UConn Advance - November 28, 2005 - Gladsteins commit $1 million ...
Says Gladstein, Judi and I believe that Richard Wilson has made a tremendous impact on UConn’s human rights programming. His leadership and creativity ...

UConn Advance - October 3, 2005 - Dodd Prize to honor human rights ...
Two attorneys who have spent their careers fighting for human rights will share the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights on Oct. ...

UConn Advance - October 11, 2005 - Economic human rights ...
"Scholars and policymakers are increasingly attempting to link socio-economic and classic civil and political rights in unprecedented ways", says Richard Wilson, director of the Human Rights Institute….

UConn Advance - September 7, 2005 - Task force report on sweatshop ...
... Boris Bravo-Ureta, professor and executive director of the Office of International Affairs; Shareen Hertel, assistant professor of political science; ...

UConn Advance - September 7, 2005 - Dodd Center celebrating 10th ...
... and a Human Rights Institute located in the Dodd Center was launched, with anthropology professor Richard Wilson, as director. ...

UConn Advance - June 14, 2005 - Human Rights Grants Announced
... Examining the Benetton Campaign 1992-2000, $2500. Richard Wilson, Human Rights Institute Lecture, David Held, Human Rights and Globalization,$5000. ...

UConn Advance - April 18, 2005 - Coming To Campus
Richard Wilson, the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and director of the Human Rights Institute at UConn, will join the two guest speakers to talk about the ...

UConn Advance - January 24, 2005 - Four Proposals Funded through ...
Principal investigators Richard Brown, a history professor and director of the Humanities Institute, and Richard Wilson, a professor of anthropology and ...

UConn Advance - January 24, 2005 - Human Rights Gallery Opens At ...
Male Mankind, Female Mankind, digital composites by Nancy Burson, are part of an exhibit on race in the new Human Rights Gallery at the Benton Museum of ...

UConn Advance - June 14, 2005 - Human Rights Grants Announced
The Thomas J. Dodd Center and the Human Rights Institute have granted awards totaling more than $20000 to members of the campus community to conduct human ...

 

2004

UConn Advance - May 3, 2004 - Human Rights Awards Support Research...
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and its Human Rights Institute have granted awards totaling more than $60000 for faculty to conduct human rights research ...

UConn Advance - September 20, 2004 - Conference Explores Human...
If human rights advocates want to have an impact on public policy, ... "But if you're a human rights thinker whose concern is to have public policy impact ...

UConn Advance - August 30, 2004 - Human Rights In An Age Of ...
As these seemingly conflicting goals began to dominate both the international headlines and the upcoming presidential election, the Human Rights Institute ...

UConn Advance - May 3, 2004 - Human Rights Awards Support Research ...
Richard Wilson, director of the institute, said, "As we see this commitment taking place across our campus on both a personal and financial level, ...

Short-Term Guest Professors Announced For 2004 - January 20, 2004
Celina Romany, nominated by Diana Meyers and Richard Wilson, Philosophy;. Dorothy Smith, nominated by Nancy Naples, Sociology and Women's Studies; ...

 

2003

Safety Of Peace Workers Discussed By Rights Panel - October 14, 2003
Richard Wilson, the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and director of the new Human Rights Institute at the Dodd Center, said he first became aware of the ...

University Welcomes Diverse Group Of New Faculty Members ...
President Philip E. Austin and Provost John Petersen talk with Richard Wilson, professor of anthropology and the first Gladstein Chair in Human Rights ...

First Gladstein Human Rights Chair Named Richard Ashby Wilson, a social anthropologist, has been appointed the first Gladstein Chair in Human Rights. Wilson, who is currently a visiting professor ...

   

 

 

 
           
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