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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.

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

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

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.

Xavier Durham, former Barbara Harlow Intern, reflects on the assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilor Marielle Franco through the lens of structural anti-black state violence in Brazil.

Our new postdoctoral fellow, Edward Shore, describes his collaboration with quilombola activists on the Mellon archives project.

Rapoport Center Undergraduate Intern Christina Cho joins a team of students exploring colorism in Ghana this summer through a research project called The Color Complex.

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

"Diversity is often used as a checkmark, a quota." Rapoport Center Undergraduate Intern, Guneez Ibrahim, speaks at the second annual TEDxUTAustin Conference on April 6, 2019.

UT treated attendees to popcorn, a special screening of the award-winning film “War Don Don,” and a discussion with a human rights lawyer on Wednesday.