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

April 26–27, 2018
Migration: Discipline and Displacement

This conference explores how the regulation of migration has often served complex political and economic agendas by reinforcing inequalities through imposed legal categories. Through immigration restrictions, governments have acted to exclude, control, and derive gain from groups of men and women who, driven by poverty, environmental degradation, violence, and repression, have sought to enter the borders they enforce.

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April 16, 2018

Spanish translation of Karen Engle’s book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development, now available

En todo el mundo, los pueblos indígenas utilizan el derecho internacional para reclamar su patrimonio, territorio y desarrollo económico. Karen Engle hace un seguimiento de la historia de estas...

March 21, 2018

Antitrust and the Informal Sector in South Africa

This is the second in a two-part series, based on a collaborative project re-thinking South Africa’s national political economy, in which the Rapoport Center took part.

March 20, 2018

Visions of Radical Reform in South Africa: Toward a New Constitutional Economy

This is the first in a two-part series, based on a collaborative project re-thinking South Africa’s national political economy, in which the Rapoport Center took part.

March 19, 2018

The Downsides of Take-downs: Online Content Regulation and Human Rights Fact-Finding

Anna Banchik considers whether online content regulations pose a threat to the work of human rights groups who rely on social media sites to find and corroborate abuses.

February 15, 2018

Volatile Times for Brazil’s Human Rights

Following the decision of Porto Alegre’s appeals court to uphold the corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva three weeks ago (1/24/2018), Eyal Weinberg explores its impact.

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