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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago

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An interdisciplinary center dedicated to the theory and practice of human rights.

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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
On April 24th we're hosting UN Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal to discuss the current crisis of academic freedom and campus expression--and how international human rights law can help. humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/aca…
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
On April 15, we're hosting a talk by the renowned South African freedom fighter, lawyer, and judge Albie Sachs, who will discuss the concept of judicial independence. humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/you…
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is the US approach to academic freedom up to the job of protecting free inquiry? Can the international human rights tradition help us understand (and defend) academic freedom differently? A Pozen Center report explores these questions and more. #HumanRights #RightToEducation #AcademicFreedom
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Pozen Center Releases Report on Academic Freedom, Highlighting Human Rights Approach
First in a new series drawing attention to conversations among human rights scholars and practitioners.
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Illinois Department of Human Rights @illinoisdhr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Amid national threats to civil rights, Illinois is doubling down on our commitment to protect all Illinoisans, ensuring our state is a place of welcome and opportunity. To file a complaint, call (877) 236-7703 or 7-1-1 for *TTY users or visit dhr.illinois.gov/filing-a-charge.
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We're excited to host Shanelle Matthews, former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives, for an interactive lunch Thurs, Feb 27. Matthews will discuss the concept of "narrative power," and how social movements can leverage storytelling in the fight for change. Learn more + register:
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Social Movement Communicator Shanelle Matthews to Discuss Leveraging Stories for Change
Former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives helps activist groups build ‘narrative power.’
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yesterday, the Pozen Center released "What Kind of Freedom Is Academic Freedom? Emerging Human Rights Perspectives," a report on new ways that human rights scholars and practitioners are thinking about academic freedom. Learn more and read the report: humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/2/...
humanrights.uchicago.edu
Pozen Center Releases Report on Academic Freedom, Highlighting Human Rights Approach
First in a new series drawing attention to conversations among human rights scholars and practitioners.
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Meet this year's Pozen Graduate Lecturers, doctoral candidates from across UChicago who we're supporting as they develop and teach courses that connect their expertise to human rights discourse. humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/2/...
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Since we're brand-new to Bluesy, please help us out by boosting this, ensuring that it reaches more people thinking about how to defend academic spaces. #HumanRights #AcademicFreedom
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We are launching a new series, "Pozen Center Reports," designed to draw attention to timely discourse among human rights scholars and practitioners. The first report will be on the pressing subject of academic freedom. Sign up for our email list to get the report as soon as it's out: bit.ly/3CXL8yB
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tomorrow @ 4 p.m.! Whet your appetite by reading: -the New Yorker rave about Abrahamian's book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... -her recent New York Times business story about a businessman fleeing fraud charges in the vast "offshore world." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
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Sovereignty for Sale
It goes way beyond tax havens and offshore banking. Enterprising countries have figured out how to put their legal systems at the disposal of corporate interests.
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our new Faculty Director, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, is an anthropologist studying the interplay of science, law, politics, and health. Read about his view on human rights and vision for the Pozen Center: humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2024/…
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We're excited to host Atossa Araxia Abrahamian at Seminary Co-op Books next week for a discussion of THE HIDDEN GLOBE, exploring the spread of extraterritorial "zones" of exception to national laws. humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/…
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join us Friday for presentations by 2024 Human Rights Interns about their fieldwork experiences. 2025 interns: this is a way to start thinking about next summer. Come as your schedule allows. Browse panels + register: humanrights.uchicago.edu/events/hum…
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Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago @pozencenter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Read a new profile of Pozen faculty board member Renslow Sherer, who treated Chicago's first AIDS patients, co-founded the city's first AIDS clinic, and today passes the importance of the human rights lens to a new generation of UChicago students. humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/1/...
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Meet Faculty Board Member Renslow Sherer
A pioneer in Chicagoland AIDS treatment, now passing the human rights lens on to a new generation of students.
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