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(January 2013)






Human Rights Center Annual Report (December 2012)

                                                                                                                                                                              

MethodologyThe Right Toolkit: Applying Research Methods in the Service of Human Rights (April 2012)    

 

 

Kenya Sexual Offences Act Implementation Workshop Report, Summary Version and Comprehensive Version (April 2012)

 

Human Rights Center Annual Report (October 2011)

 

 

Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia (June 2011)

After the First Trial: A Population-Based Survey on Knowledge and Perception of Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (June 2011). Read the press release.

Transitioning to Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Social Reconstruction and Justice in Northern Uganda (December 2010). Read the press release.

Building Peace, Seeking Justice: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Accountability and Social Reconstruction in the Central African Republic (August 2010). Read the press release on UCB NewsCenter.

News and Events

4/2/13 - We're hiring! The Human Rights Center is searching for a Global Justice Program Director to lead a new initiative. Click here for the job description or visit jobs.berkeley.edu (job #15505) to apply. 

3/15/13 - In the News: In Huffington Post blog, HRC's Cristián Orrego calls on Secretary of State Kerry and Salvadoran President Funes to help reunite families torn apart during El Salvador's war. 

3/11/13 - In the News: Kim Thuy Seelinger, Sexual Violence Program Director, and Michelle Ben-David, Graduate Student Researcher, discuss the new dialogue about conflict-related sexual violence in IntLawGrrls. 

2/26/13 - In the News: HRC's executive director Alexa Koenig is profiled in Pacific Sun magazine.   

2/12/13 - In the News: Missing Peace Symposium 2013. HRC co-sponsors three-day symposium in Washington, D.C. to help shape response to sexual violence.  

2/5/13 - In the News: HRC director Alexa Koenig weighs in on President Obama's policy on drone strikes in US News today.  

2/4/13 - In the News: The Salvadoran magazine En Busqueda publishes a piece by Forensic Program Director Cristián Orrego and HRC Research Associate Leila Juzam this month. Read the translation here. 

1/30/13 - In the News: Forensic Program Director Cristián Orrego calls on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes to help reunite families torn apart by war. 

1/23/13 - Event: Waging Peace Director Rebecca Tinsley speaks on Wednesday, 1/23/13, 12:45 p.m. in Boalt Hall, Room 141 on "The Failure to Protect: Why the International Community Allows Genocide to Keep Happening." 

12/21/12 - Announcement: New executive director selected to lead Human Rights Center

12/10/12 - In the News: 2012 Human Rights Fellow Joanna Cuevas Ingram on voting rights and Venezuela.

12/10/12 - We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest

11/27/12 - Audio: Human Rights Fellowship information Session

11/15/12 - In Conversation: Art for Human Rights exhibit, with Eric Stover and Michael Mascuch

11/14/12 - Information Session: 2013 Human Rights Fellowship Program

11/01/12 - Event: Human Rights Fellowship Conference

10/19/12 - Film Screening: Still Time: A film screening and panel discussion on incarceration of women

10/01/12 - Event: The Human Toll of Armed Conflict in Syria

09/13/12 - Event: Niños de la Memoria: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion on the Search for the Missing Children of El Salvador's Civil War

08/08/12 - In the News: UC Merced Connect Fellow studies midwifery  (Merced Sun-Star)

07/20/12 - In the News: Report faults N.M. police, sheriffs on racial profiling  (The Durango Herald). See the report here.  

07/13/12 - In the News: El Salvadoran Officials Seek Help to Find Missing Children  (Berkeley Law)

06/29/12 - In the News: Transcript magazine highlights HRC efforts to reunite families separated by El Salvador's civil war (Forensic Files, page 13)

06/20/12 - Article: Temporary Protection for Refugees Fleeing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, by Kim Thuy Seelinger, director of HRC Sexual Violence and Accountability Project (IntLawGrrls)

05/15/12 - Press Release: Delegation from El Salvador Visits International Commission on Missing Persons

05/14/12 - Event: The Next Frontier of International Justice with Honorable Stephen Rapp (World Affairs Council, SF)

4/27/12 - Announcement: 2012 Fellows Announced

04/26/12 - In the News: Faculty Director Eric Stover comments on the Charles Taylor verdict (PBS NewsHour) 

04/04/12 - In the News: Team on sexual offenses wants post-election gender violence investigated (The Nation, Kenya)

04/02/12 - In the News: Team appointed to review Post Election Violence cases (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) 

02/09/12 - Article: The International Committee for the Red Cross releases an article by Eric Stover, Mychelle Balthazard and K. Alexa on the trial of "Duch" at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Read the article here.

01/24/12 - In the News: Read 2010 Fellow Andrew Lim's Op-Ed, Though Diplomatic Doors Open to Myanmar, Tragedy Persists in Ethnic Areas (Huffington Post)