Past Conferences

The inaugural NUCHR conference in 2004 focused on American interventionist policy around the world and featured addresses by Richard Holbrooke, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration, and Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian General in charge of U.N. forces during the Rwandan Genocide.

The following year in 2005, the second conference addressed questions about American policy toward HIV/AIDS in the Developing World. Featured addresses were given by Stephen Lewis, U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders, and Dr. Mark Dybul, Assistant U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

The third annual NUCHR conference, which focused on the issue of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The 3-day conference included a series of panels, discussions, and speaking events featuring national and international leaders in the anti-trafficking movement. The 2006 conference was co-sponsored by the Campus Coalition Against Trafficking (CCAT), a grassroots student mobilization project sponsored by FAIR Fund and Polaris Project. Held from April 6-8, 2006, last year’s conference brought together nearly 100 student delegates representing more than 40 colleges and universities, more than a dozen countries, and four continents. Given the national breadth and demonstrated leadership of the student delegates working on the issue, the 2006 NUCHR/CCAT conference has been recognized as one of the premier national student conferences in the anti-trafficking movement to date.