January 12, 2021 | The HRI and Dodd Impact will work in solidarity with our partners on and off campus to foster the knowledge, values, and skills necessary for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

January 12, 2021 | Kathryn Libal, Director of the Human Right Institute and Glenn Mitoma, Director of Dodd Impact analyze the importance of shifting focus back to the core principles of human rights.

January 12, 2021 | Philosophy Department Head Lewis Gordon writes about the cry of white privilege surrounding the attack on the Capitol and the lack of appropriate action in response to the events that unfolded.

January 11, 2021 | Associate Dean of the School of Law Richard Ashby Wilson discusses how Trump crosses the line this time to incite imminent lawless action.

UConn faculty met with a global consortium in November 2020 to discuss human rights in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic.

September 28, 2020 | Professor of Political Science Jane Anna Gordon and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Devyn Spence Benson discuss how the translation of a Cuban collection of works called “Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices” came to be, and next steps in a broader translation project funded by UConn’s Office of Global Affairs.

September 14, 2020 | Music professor Kenneth Fuchs released a series of works for symphonic winds recorded by the United States Coast Guard Band.

September 2, 2020 | The Conversation | By Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor of Political Science | The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism. From criminal justice to pro sports to pop culture, Americans increasingly are recognizing how racist ideas have influenced virtually every sphere of life in this country.

September 1, 2020 | Israel and the United Arab Emeritus have agreed to peace but there is still work to be done.

August 18, 2020 | National Geographic | By Scott Wallace, Associate Professor of Journalism. Amid rising alarm that the novel coronavirus has reached deep into the Amazon rainforest, threatening isolated tribes, Brazil’s Supreme Court this month unanimously ruled in favor of Indigenous people’s demands to force the government to protect them from the pandemic.