Highlighted Information

General

Sissy 1973 Speech

Read More

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.
Watch our two-part webinar event on reproductive justice in Texas
Check out our 2021-2022 Annual Review

Upcoming Events

  • Professor Wendy A. Bach of the University of Tennessee College of Law will discuss her new book, "Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care,"which focuses on Tennessee’s fetal assault law as an example of the criminalization of care in poor communities. Professor Aziza Ahmed, Boston University School of Law, will respond.

  • The eighth annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture will feature acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Dorothy Roberts, who will discuss the rising entanglement of pregnancy criminalization and family policing and the need for reproductive justice and abolitionist approaches to contest it.

Full Events Listing

Latest News

Check out our latest Annual Review, which highlights the celebration of Sissy Farenthold's life, the Farenthold lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy, our webinar on post-Roe strategies, and much more!

Full News Archive