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We are delighted to welcome our new cohort of undergraduate interns and human rights law scholars.

Khan's chapter is called “The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor through the Layers of Racial Capitalism.”

We mourn the loss of our good friend, colleague, and Rapoport Center faculty affiliate Zipporah B. Wiseman.

The study found that political decisions, including Gov. Greg Abbott's mandate to allow construction work to continue during the coronavirus pandemic's outset, placed employees in that sector at risk.

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s recent report on the inordinate effects of COVID-19 on Austin’s construction workers is damning, but not surprising.

Economic policies and rapid growth in Austin led to COVID-19 outbreaks among mostly Latino construction workers in the area, a new report finds.

Our newly-released report is titled “COVID-19, Structural Inequality, and the Past and Future of Low-Income Latinx Construction Workers in Austin, Texas.”

Read our joint statement with WOLA, USNDB, and Brazilian civil society organizations on the fight to protect Brazilian indigenous and Quilombola communities’ rights.

Our research teams have developed case studies about COVID-19 “hot-spots” in the construction, food, and care sectors, across six sites in the U.S. and abroad.