Attribution: Dodd Impact
2024 Malka Penn Award Recognizes I Kick and I Fly and Jovita Wore Pants
Children’s literature selections honored for outstanding work addressing human rights issues and themes
2023 Malka Penn Award Recognizes Beneath the Wide Silk Sky and The Tower of Life
Children’s literature selections honored for outstanding work addressing human rights issues and themes
The Darién Gap in Focus: Exhibition Centers the Stories of Migrants Traveling through Panama in Transit to the U.S.-Mexico Border
"The photographs connect us closer to the experiences of migrants transiting through Panama: shoes laying across the migratory reception center, two children under a tent sponsored by U.S. and E.U. aid, a Bible drying under the sun, children playing in the river, and border officials' increasing presence in Darién."
2022 Malka Penn Award Recognizes Defiant by Author Wade Hudson
A powerful memoir on the hardship and resilience of growing up in Louisiana in the 1950s & 1960s, Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South by author Wade Hudson is the 2022 recipient of the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, presented by Dodd Human Rights Impact at UConn.
Statement of Solidarity with Ukraine
As directors of the Human Rights Institute and Dodd Impact, we condemn the war of aggression against Ukraine as a blatant violation of international law and as a catastrophic attack on human rights.
Dodd Impact’s 2021 Malka Penn Award Honors This is My America
Lauded by critics for its crucial look at justice in the United States, This is My America by author Kim Johnson has been recognized as the 2021 recipient of the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature, presented by Dodd Human Rights Impact at UConn.
Meet the Researcher: Glenn Mitoma, Neag School of Education, Human Rights Institute
Glenn Mitoma has spent his career studying human rights and helping others understand how they can realize them in their communities
Message from the HRI and Dodd Impact Directors: Yom Hashoah and Antisemitism
Today, we join many around the world in commemorating Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—in honor and memory of the six million Jews who perished as a result of Nazi crimes during World War II. With the recent antisemitic attacks on our campus, this occasion is made all the more somber for us here at UConn. We stand […]
Special Message from the HRI and Dodd Impact Directors
Statement from the Human Rights Institute Wednesday’s rampage at the Capitol—resulting in the deaths of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and four others—was among the darkest day of this dark season for the United States. Saturated in lies and conspiracy theories, incited by the President, and protected by white privilege, the mob that stormed the […]
Reflections on the Dodd Center’s Namesake 75 Years After Landmark War Crimes Trials
Sen. Chris Dodd reflects on his father's service as a prosecutor in the Nuremburg war crimes trials 75 years after they began.