🚨Big news at the DHRC!🚨 Professor Adam Rosenblatt will be taking over as the new director in July 2025. His leadership will support and expand DHRC’s mission of advancing human rights scholarship and practice. To learn more, visit our link in bio.

Registration season is among us! Check out this exciting new course offering with a hands-on, research-oriented approach! Learn more and register on DukeHub.

Another exciting course spotlight! Students, consider registering for “Martin Luther King and the Prophetic Tradition” taught by Professor Safi. More information is available on DukeHub!

Rights! Camera! Action! Tuesday, April 1st at 7pm, join the Duke Human Rights Center and Duke Disability Alliance for our screening of “Being Michelle” in Smith Warehouse Bay 4. This event is free and open to all.

Thank you to those who joined us last Thursday for our Juan E. Méndez Book Award Ceremony, honoring Ieva Jusionyte and her book “Exit Wounds.” Visit our website to learn more about this award-winning book. Copies can be purchased at The Regulator!

Tomorrow! Join Duke Law’s International Human Rights Clinic for “Building a Human Rights Economy.” Lunch will be provided for attendees. Undergraduates encouraged to attend.

🚨GLOBAL IDEAS, LOCAL IMPACT🚨 Join the Duke Human Rights Center and its Student Advisory Board on Monday from 5-8pm in Wilkinson Auditorium for a human rights alumni panel and research slam! You won’t want to miss this exciting annual event! Learn more with the link in our bio.

On Wednesday, April 2nd at 7pm, join Duke Partnership for Service and the NC Coalition Against the Death Penalty for a screening of “Racist Roots: The Origin of NC’s Death Penalty.” Their screening will feature a conversation with exoneree Ed Chapman in Social Sciences 139!

Our 2025 Juan E. Méndez Book Award Winner, Ieva Jusionyte, will be speaking at Duke this Thursday about her award-winning book, Exit Wounds. Join us on March 20th at 5pm in Smith Warehouse Bay 4 for the book award ceremony. Read Jusionyte’s full interview and get event details at our link in bio.

15 days until our Juan E. Méndez Book Award Ceremony with Ieva Jusionyte! Join us on Thursday, March 20th at 5pm to hear directly from the author of Exit Wounds. After the ceremony, you will have the opportunity to purchase copies and have them signed. This event is free and open to all!

Join us for our rescheduled screening of “No Other Land” this Friday at 4pm! All previously held tickets will be honored. New tickets can be reserved with the link in our bio!

The Duke Human Rights Center is now accepting applications for the 2025 Koonz Prize. The prize honors the best essay/paper or alternative project prepared by an undergraduate for the academic year. The winners in each category will receive a $500 prize. Learn more and apply at the link in our bio.

Anushri Saxena (Trinity ‘25) is a public policy and global health major working on “Abortion Care Today” — a Bass Connections project that examines how reproductive health care in the United States is changing. Read the full interview here. humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/reprod...

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, which was incubated in the Duke Human Rights Center, is featured in the Washington Post! Read about their journey to opening and becoming a National Historic Landmark. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

It’s 10 days until the Human Rights Center’s screening of “No Other Land” in the Rubenstein Arts Center Theater! Read our interview with Palestinian filmmaker Hareth Yousef, who will be joining us after the film for a conversation with Professor Rebecca Stein. We hope to see you at 7pm on Feb 20!

Read Duke Human Rights Center Faculty Advisory Board member Wesley Hogan’s article in WRAL about the ongoing challenge of 60,000 North Carolinians’ voter registrations — including her own. Link in bio.

Join the Duke Human Rights Center on Thursday, February 20th for our screening of “No Other Land.” After the film, you will hear from Duke Professor Rebecca Stein and Palestinian Filmmaker Hareth Yousef.

Apply for DHRC’s human rights summer research grant! Eligible undergraduate and graduate students can get up to $2,000 in funding for their human rights-related research project. The application is open now! You can apply with the link in our bio.

The Duke Human Rights Center is excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Juan E. Méndez Book Award! Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte for “Exit Wounds” which explores the ricochet effects of firearms smuggled from the US to Mexico. Stay tuned for info about our upcoming book award ceremony!

Another exciting opportunity for students looking for a human rights-oriented internship! Interested students can learn more and apply on the SAF website. If you’re looking for other internship opportunities, be sure to check out the DHRC’s internships and fellowships page on our website!

Graduating seniors! Check out this fellowship opportunity with Freedom House. More information is now available on the DHRC website’s internships and fellowships page.

The Duke Human Rights Center is excited to announce our shortlist for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award! We encourage you to take the time to explore these powerful books on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The book award winner will be announced in January ‘25!

DHRC Executive Committee member, Nancy MacLean, has released a new version of “Behind the Mask of Chivalry” for its 30th anniversary. The new edition has a preface that reflects on the relevance of 1920s history to our present moment of rising violent white Christian nationalism. Get yours now!

DHRC interviewed Nina Balmaceda, the Associate Director of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, about peacebuilding in Israel & Palestine. Balmaceda is also a member of the Duke Human Rights Center Faculty Advisory Board. Check out the full interview on our website and in our bio!

🚨Looking for a human-rights related internship? We compiled a list of opportunities for you! Make your way over to our website (link in bio) and check out the over 100 opportunities we’ve highlighted!