The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights provides an educational experience that combines classroom and hands-on learning, activism, and research to foster in students a deeper understanding of human rights in their lives, and to prepare interested students for careers and postgraduate work in related professions. The Center hosts leading scholars and human rights activists, sponsors academic travel, internships, student-led task forces, research projects, and supports local and global campaigns, thereby advancing the cause of human rights more broadly while helping students develop the ethical commitments and leadership qualities necessary to identify, prevent, and overcome human rights abuses in today’s world.
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OPINION: Hong Kong police aren’t just using force. They’re using unnecessary violence
Published November 21, 2019 in The Student Life by Anna Choi (POM ’23), Mgrublian Center Research Fellow. Miles away in a university not unlike ours, police are laying siege to students fighting for democracy and justice. Miles away in a city not...
Overwhelming Bipartisan Passage of Armenian Genocide Resolution Reflects the Best of America
Posted on October 29, 2019 by Armenian Assembly of America WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Genocide resolution, H.Res.296, was adopted today by an overwhelming favorable bipartisan vote of 405 to 11 in the U.S. House of Representatives, reported the Armenian Assembly...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Statement on Syria
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM WARNS OF INCREASED SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN SYRIA WASHINGTON, DC — “For over nine years, Syrians have been crying out for help,” said Naomi Kikoler, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt...