The Human Rights Center
assists human rights advocates,
monitors, students, educators, and volunteers access effective tools,
practices, and networks to promote a culture of human rights and
responsibilities in our local, national, and international communities.
The University of Minnesota
Human Rights Center was inaugurated December 1988 on the occasion of the
fortieth anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. The principal focus of the Human
Rights Center is to help train effective human rights professionals and
volunteers. The Human Rights Center assists human rights advocates, monitors,
students, and educators through five primary programs:
Applied
Human Rights Research to assist human rights advocates and activists
in improving the effectiveness of their work;
Educational
Tools through the development of UN human rights monitoring and
training manuals, the Human
Rights Education Series, and human
rights passports;
Field
and Training Opportunities through the Upper
Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program, Center internships and fellowships,
university courses, volunteer trainings, annual Training
of Trainers for Human Rights Education in the U.S, and other Program
Collaborations;
Human
Rights On-line through the University of Minnesota Human Rights
Library and Resource Center as well as our
on-line catalog
of human rights education resources;
Learning Communities and Partnerships through presentations, workshops,
and distribution of more than 100 human rights education materials for
20 non-profit organizations to local, regional, national, and international
communities.