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Examining the most pressing human rights questions and preparing the next generation of human rights leaders.

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Sport and Human Rights, the 2025 Summit at The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Sport & Human Rights

October 22-24, 2025
The Dodd Center for Human Rights

The Human Rights Summit at The Dodd Center for Human Rights examines the key human rights challenges of our time and generate new ideas to promote social justice and human dignity globally. Through a mix of high-profile lectures, practical workshops, and roundtable discussions, the Human Rights Summit will serve as a critical venue for sharing insights, building relationships, and inspiring action.

The 2025 Summit, titled Sport and Human Rights, brings together prominent professional and collegiate athletes, thought leaders, policymakers, activists, scholars, students, artists, and business leaders from around the world to examine the promise, too often unfulfilled, of sport as a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for everyone, no matter one’s color, race, religion, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, socioeconomic status, gender or sexual orientation.

The Summit will serve as a critical venue for sharing insights, building relationships, and inspiring action to align the world of sport with the principles of human rights.  Through a mix of high-profile keynote addresses, fireside chats, and panel discussions, the Summit will engage a range of global and domestic issues at the intersection of sport and human rights, including: Gender, Sport, and Human Rights; Race, Sport, and Human Rights; Disability, Sport, and Human Rights; Business, Sport, and Human Rights; Children, Sport, and Human Rights; and History, Sport, and Human Rights.

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UConn Today News

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Macy’s Welcomes Four UConn Business Grad Students to Explore Sustainable Practices

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Second Human Rights Summit comes to UConn with Focus on Sports, Featuring Iconic Athletes from 1968 Summer Olympics

Tommie Smith and John Carlos will visit UConn Storrs for the opening keynote conversation of a three-day summit examining the global and domestic issues at play in the intersection of human rights and sports

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Reflections on the importance of the newest addition to UConn’s ICTY Digital Archives, the Srebrenica Genocide Archives Collection.

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War-Torn Central America in the 1980s Comes to Life in New Historical Memoir

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In the News

UConn 360: A Special Summit Comes to UConn

August 21, 2025

James Waller joins podcast hosts Mike Enright and Izzy Harris of University Communications to discuss how the summit theme came to be selected, its significance and unique connection to UConn, and to preview several panel topics on gender equity, business practices, disability and sport, and athlete advocacy.

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AI Odyssey at Hartford Public Library’s Albany Library

October 17, 2024

A partnership between the Hartford Public Library, University of Connecticut, and the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium culminated in a two-day event, AI Odyssey, aiming to bridge the digital divide in AI and support teens learning to harness innovative technologies.

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