The Human Rights Institute is excited to announce the Summer 2021 Internship Fellows Cohort! These placements provide students with valuable experiential learning opportunities that prepare them for the realities of pursuing a career in the human rights field.

The 2021 HRI Seed Grant has been awarded to Alaina Brenick, Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Science for her project “A Right to Housing, A Right to Health: How do Connecticut Constituents View the Homeless Community’s Right to Housing During and Beyond COVID-19"

The Human Rights Institute is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021 Small Faculty Grants for Human Rights Research. These scholars are researching contemporary human rights issues and we are proud to support their work.

UConn’s Human Rights Institute has steadily built a Program on Economic & Social Rights that influences global scholarly and policy work on issue of poverty, inequality, environmental justice, and other challenges at the heart of human wellbeing.

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 […]