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"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.

We are pleased to publish Dr. Katherine Fallah's Paper, "Re Georgio: An Intimate Account of Transgender Interactions with Law and Society," winner of the 2018 Audre Rapoport Prize.

The Rapoport Center Working Paper Series is currently accepting papers! Authors from all disciplines and institutions are welcome to submit papers on any topic related to human rights.

Human rights policy can have a boomerang effect on issues outside of its traditional sphere, according to an expert on economic inequality and social injustice.

Ricardo Velasco reflects on his work as a Berta Cáceres Fellow, undertaking fieldwork with the Sustainable Settlements for Peace in Isla Grande, Islas del Rosario and in Filandia, Colombia.

Inequality, Human Rights and Labor Fellow Lissette Almanza reflects on her summer at the Solidarity Center in Washington DC.

This paper, by Franziska Brachthäuser, discusses forms of interpretation and implementation of reparations in international criminal law.

Elizabeth Schmelzel explores how immigration precarity is produced by a confluence of legal exclusions, including a lack of access to counsel.

Congratulations to former Steering Committee member, Barbara Hines, for winning this year’s Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico!