Read the official Duke Human Rights Center statement on Gaza and Israel

Our statement is now online - read on The Chronicle #israel #gaza #palestine #humanrights Duke University

Today, November 16, we celebrate the international day of tolerance.

Interested in human rights and queer mental care? Check out this house course on Queer mental care, this upcoming semester! This course builds on fundamentals of clinical psychology and queer studies to emphasize health, law, language and psychology. No prior knowledge required!

We are very excited to announce our 2024 Méndez Book Award winner: Still Life with Bones by Dr Alexa Hagerty ! More information is coming soon regarding the book award ceremony so stay tuned! #Humanrights #MendezAward #CrownPublishing #RandomHouse #Guatemala #Argentina #LatinAmerica

Join us on January 18th to welcome and learn from Professor Katherine Franke! John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Katherine Franke #HumanRights #Duke

Meet our new DHRC Faculty Advisory Board member! Dr. Chris Beyrer recently joined the Duke community in 2022 and works with human rights medicine and advocacy. Read more about him in the link in bio. Welcome Dr. Beyrer! #duke #dukeuniversity #dukemedicine #humanrights

Apply for our Human Rights Summer Research Grant to help fund your summer research in human rights! Deadline to apply is March 29, 2024. Check out our website for more information! #humanrights #summerresearch #undergraduate #duke #funding #grants

The announcement you’ve all been waiting for! This year’s Méndez Book Award Ceremony will be held on February 29th at 6pm — exactly 1 month from today! Come hear from Alexa Hagerty about her award-winning book Still Life with Bones. The event is free and open to all!

The Oliver W. Koonz Prize is live! Send in your submissions of an essay or project relating to human rights for a chance at a $500 prize. More information is available at the link in our bio!

📢🧑‍🎓Student Group of the Year: DAY 4 🧑‍🎓📢 The second award for runner up goes to Duke University's Amnesty chapter! They brought attention to Duke’s investments in venture capital funds and were even featured as a guest columnist in the Duke Chronicle. Well done Duke University!

Join us tomorrow in welcoming Dr. Alexa Hagerty, the 2024 recipient of the Juan E Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America! Read an interview here: humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/genocide… #genocide #humanrights #forensics #rights #latinamerica

Join us two weeks from today for our film screening of I Didn’t See You There with special guests Bryan Rusch and Tatum Tricario! This event is free to all and ASL interpretation will be available.

Global Ideas, Local Impact is this week! We're so excited to announce our incredible alumni panelists who are working in human rights careers. Thank you to Duke Alumni Engagement and Development Forever Duke for co-sponsoring the event! #humanrights #duke #dukealumni

On Wednesday March 20th, NC death row inmate Lyle C. May spoke with Professor Kirk’s Intro to Human Rights course. May's book, "Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State," is out today. Check out our Interview with Lyle C. May on our website for more information!