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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2020-21 Research Fellowships – Call for Applications!
The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights is currently accepting applications for the 7th annual Human Rights Student Research Fellowship Program. Research fellows work closely with a faculty advisor on a year-long (2020-21 academic year) project related to the...
In Memoriam: Dr. Eva Fleischner, Holocaust Survivor and Founding Advisory Board Member
Dr. Eva Fleischner, a loyal and distinguished member of the Mgrublian Center’s founding advisory board, died in Claremont on July 6, 2020, one day before her 95th birthday. Born in Vienna in 1925 to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, Fleischner fled the Nazis to...
Armenian Genocide Commemoration
From LAist.com April 24th, 2020 marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Despite the “shelter in place” directive there are still many ways to commemorate this day and to support communities in need. Here’s How LA’s Armenian Community Is...