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Rapoport Center's 20th anniversary gala on April 24, 2025 at 6 p.m.

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.

Upcoming Events

  • Join Amnesty International Kenya's Executive Director Irungu Houghton in exploring how current events are reshaping the right to expression, assembly and association globally.
  • Join us on April 24, 2025 for a gala celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the 10th anniversary of the digital exhibition of the life and work of Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold. The keynote address will be delivered by Congressman Jamie Raskin.

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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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