April 10th - April 12th 2008
Globalization and the Universality of Human Rights

NUCHR News

March 30th, 2008
THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS UP. Click HERE to check it out.

We also now have a KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Sheri Fink. Click HERE to find out more.

February 25th, 2008
FEATURED SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED!!

Opening Address: Nicholas Kristof

Closing Address: Mark Hanis

Click HERE to find out more about these speakers!

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January 20th, 2008
NUCHR is co-sponsoring a dinner at Ethiopian Diamond Restaurant with the Program of African Studies and the African Students Association. Our speaker at the dinner will be Jean-Marie Kamatali, the former dean of the law school at the National University of Rwanda and a senior research fellow at Notre Dame Law School's Center for Civil and Human Rights. The dinner will be held on Thursday, April 3rd.

On February 7 we will be co-sponsoring another event.
“Our Sisters are Not for Sale: Examining the issue and implications of Asian trafficked victims into the U.S.”
NUCHR, KAN-WIN (Korean-American Women In Need) and the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern held a speaker panel offering cutting edge research and best practices for the community to address Asian trafficked victims into the U.S. and Chicago, while making big picture connections to the dehumanization of and violence against Asian women and girls. It was the first step for Asian community organizers to meet and strategize with the city’s main task forces addressing the trafficking agenda for future collaboration and useful networking opportunities. Panelists included Rachel Durchslag, the Executive Director of Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Kaitlyn Lim, Coordinator of the Polaris Project in Los Angeles; Timothy Lim, Professor of Asian Studies at Cal State, Los Angeles; Bing Luo, Immigrant Services Advocate of the National Immigrant Justice Center/Heartland Alliance; and Kavitha Sreeharsha, Staff Attorney of Legal Momentum.

January 6th, 2008
Applications from outside-Northwestern delegates are due February 25th!! Click here to apply now!

December 4, 2007
“The Guatemalan Experience: Education, Human Right, and Social Entrepreneurship”
NUCHR along with The Global Engagement Summit and The Northwestern Community Development Corps helped the Center for Global Engagement host Ashoka Fellow Jorge Chojolan. Jorge Chojolan is an internationally recognized Guatemalan social entrepreneur creating a network of schools focused on human rights, environmental stewardship and youth empowerment. An indigenous Mayan born into poverty, Jorge has devoted his life to the promotion of rights and education and has been recognized by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

November 7, 2007
Film screening of Devil Came on Horseback
As part of the Program of African Studies “Prospects for Peace in Sudan” event, NUCHR and the Program of African Studies put on a film screening of “The Devil Came on Horseback,” a documentary on the genocide in Darfur. The movie follows the experiences of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle, a military observer for the African Union who uses his photographs to raise awareness of the atrocities committed by the Janjaweed militias funded by Sudan’s government. Visiting scholar and expert on Sudan, Oystein Rolandsen of the University of Oslo, Norway held a talk earlier in the day and introduced the film.