Human Rights Institute

Join us on December 3 at 5pm for a virtual screening and discussion about "Love, Life and the Virus", a film by Oscar Guerra. About the Film: A mother’s fight to survive COVID-19 and see her newborn baby. How the coronavirus hit one immigrant family, their struggle to be reunited, and the community that rallied around them. Presented by Dodd Human Rights Impact, the Human Rights Institute, Digital Media and Design and in partnership for PBS Frontline. Click here for more information and to register for the event.

Twenty five years after the dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the human rights outreach and engagement programs of the Center are being relaunched as Dodd Human Rights Impact! Read more about Dodd Human Rights Impact.

With research programs in economic and social rights, health and human rights, and humanitarianism, the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute is committed to fostering conversations across disciplines among students, faculty and the broader community in Connecticut and beyond. For more information about our interdisciplinarity, click here.

Launched in Fall 2015, the Human Rights and Action Learning Community (HRALC) has been a thriving hub of activism, academic achievement, and community service. For more information about the HRALC, click here.

A double major by design. Complement your discipline and explore human rights through planned course work and individualized internship opportunities. For more information about our double major approach, click here.