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

February 29, 2020
Derecka Purnell | Keynote Speaker at GRITS Conference

Human rights lawyer, writer, and activist Derecka Purnell will deliver a keynote lecture at Getting Radical in the South (GRITS), a student-run public interest law conference that focuses on the difficulties and constraints inherent to social justice work in the South, and the unique strategies that legal practitioners and public interest workers have developed to meet those needs.
March 27, 2020
Understanding Contemporary Brazil | BRASA 2020 Featured Panel

The Brazilian Studies Association, or BRASA, is an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who support and promote Brazilian studies in all fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences. BRASA is dedicated to the promotion of Brazilian studies around the world in general, and in the United States in particular.
April 2, 2020
Book Talk | Jennifer Wenzel, Author of “The Disposition of Nature”

Join us for a visit with Jennifer Wenzel, author of "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature." Wenzel is a literary critic jointly appointed in Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies and English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Latest News

February 3, 2020

Humanity Journal publishes our dossier on Human Rights and Inequality

We are proud to see the publication of this dossier. Many thanks to all the authors for their participation in the publication & related conference we held in 2016!

Source: Humanity Journal

December 20, 2019

New Working Paper — “The Only Panthers Left: An Intellectual History of the Angola 3”

Holly Genovese traces the intellectual contributions of the Angola 3 to the making of the Black Radical Tradition.

October 2, 2019

Rapoport Center Faculty Publish Op Ed Opposing Space Station on Afro-descendant Lands in Brazil

As the summer’s fires in the Amazon continue to dominate the international coverage of Brazil, few have noticed another disaster that has been decades in the making.

Source: The Hill

September 3, 2019

New Working Paper — “Now is (not yet) the Winter of Our Discontent: The Unfulfilled Promise of Economic and Social Rights in the Fight Against Economic Inequality”

Caroline Lichuma argues that a human rights approach advocating economic and social rights can mitigate material inequality worldwide.

July 25, 2019

New Working Paper — “Fostering the Inclusion of Disabled Students in Higher Education in South Africa: Some Reflections”

Serges Djoyou Kamga, Spring 2019 Visiting Professor/Practitioner, examines South African policies that aim to ensure higher education access for students with disabilities.

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