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20th Anniversary Video

Welcome to the Rapoport Center

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice. Our goal is to promote the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.

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  • Join us for a conversation with Kim Mutcherson, Co-Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, as she shares insights from her research on hospital counsel navigating abortion care in restrictive states. The discussion will explore how hospital lawyers interpret changing laws, guide physicians, and influence patient care.

  • This virtual panel will feature organizers and members of a transnational research collective that convenes graduate researchers based in South Africa and the United States whose research critically examines the distributional consequences of the laws, policies, development programs, and technological innovations that entail the “green” transition. The  collective is organized by the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. Members meet monthly to discuss cutting edge research, hear from leading scholars in the field, and workshop each other’s scholarship. Panelists from both institutions, including some of the participating researchers, will reflect on the substantive questions examined through this collective, while considering the lessons learned in convening graduate researchers across borders and scholarly disciplines.

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We are pleased to publish Ella Tan's paper, "Victim, Criminal, Worker, or Lover? The Discourses of Anti-Sex Trafficking & the Lived Realities of Commercialized Sex in Southeast Asia."

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