Addressing current human rights concerns at local, state, and international levels
The Carr Center’s work includes a range of special initiatives focused on critical and compelling human rights concerns, including migration, trafficking, torture, transitional justice, humanitarian crises, LGBTQ rights, corruption, and shrinking civil society space. These initiatives are responsive to current events and are reflected in the work of our fellows, student experiential learning and funding, conferences and seminars, and the...
While problems of police brutality and broader challenges of systemic racism are ingrained in the nation’s DNA, more recent phenomena—such as the use of technology to document said violence, the rise of social movements and digital campaigns to advocate for Black lives, and the growth of intersectionality in civil society amongst immigrant rights, queer liberation, and racial justice movements—have catapulted these issues to the fore.
As we continue the centuries-long journey of tackling racial injustice in the United States, the Carr Center for Human Rights Racial...
National Survey Finds Bipartisan Support for Expansive View of Rights
Heading into the 2020 election, a national survey of American attitudes toward rights and freedoms in the United States finds surprising bipartisan support by substantial majorities of Americans for rights that are now frequently under political attack. At the same time, the poll reveals that majorities of people feel that rights are facing “serious threat” and are not “secure” and that neither the US government nor US citizens are “doing a good job...
Now accepting applications for the 2021 Topol Research Fellowship.
About the Opportunity
The Topol Research Fellowship provides recognition and support to Harvard Kennedy School students interested in and committed to nonviolent action. It is made possible by the generous support of entrepreneur, philanthropist, and peace activist Sidney Topol and the Topol Family Foundation.
The Topol Fellowship's goal is to help students develop a more robust, evidence-based, and comprehensive understanding of nonviolent resistance movements and deepen...
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The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School seeks applications from students to participate in a special delegation to the United Nations in New York for the occasion of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
The trip, being held over two full days and will include meetings with senior UN policymakers, with a particular focus on the Rights of Indigenous...
Since its founding in 1999, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School has been a leading research center that has focused on some of the most intractable challenges facing the world, including genocide, torture, violence against women, and human trafficking. The Center was founded by director Michael Ignatieff, currently President of Central European University, and Executive Director Samantha Power, who was later U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human...
