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Deadline Extended: Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights (due August 1)

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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. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about our work at the intersection of academics and advocacy.

Upcoming Events

  • The Rapoport Center will host in Austin an interdisciplinary conference to consider the relationships among the human rights, prison abolition, and penal reform movements. We invite proposals for papers, panels, art, or other forms of presentation from activists, practitioners, and scholars in all disciplines.

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AHPN, a human rights archive with which the Rapoport Center and other campus partners have worked closely since 2011, is under threat due to actions of the government of Guatemala.
Source: The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), UT Austin

Rapoport Center co-director Dan Brinks on how the federal government’s mass trials of migrants don’t look like due process to observers.
Source: Medium

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