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UI students get hands-on experience
09.08.05 by Sam Edsill, The Daily Iowan
Emily Carlson and six other UI students completed summer internships with human-rights organizations in places around the world, including Cambodia, Rwanda, and South Africa, through the UI Center for Human Rights internship program. For full story click HERE.
UICHR Research Cited in International Business Magazine
08.26.05
Elliot Schrage’s 2004 UICHR report, Promoting International Worker Rights through Private Voluntary Initiatives: Public Relations or Public Policy? is cited in the September 2005 issue of Ethical Corporation magazine. To read the article click HERE.
UI Obermann Center Awards Collaborative Research Grants
06.03.05 University of Iowa News Release
Mark Sidel of Law and Ken Cmiel of History were awarded an Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Research Grant to study contemporary human trafficking. For full press release click HERE.
UICHR Awards Grants to Support Student Internships
05.20.05 University of Iowa News Release
The UICHR has awarded grants to seven UI students to support their work in human rights organizations over the summer. Through the Human Rights Funded Internships program, the UICHR awarded funds to students who had already secured internships, either in the United States or abroad. For full press release click HERE.
UI Students Win Weston International Human Rights Essay Competition
05.11.05 University of Iowa News Release
A third-year University of Iowa law student and a UI junior are the winners of the UICHR first-annual Burns H. Weston International Human Rights Essay Competition. Mary Sevandal won the $1,000 prize in the graduate and professional student category for her essay, "Bringing Back the 'Real Iraq': Eliminating Honor Crimes in Post-War Iraq." Neil Peterson, an anthropology and women's studies major, won the $750 undergraduate prize for his essay "Speaking from Behind Closed Doors: World Health Organization, Maternal Health, and Hegemony." For full press release click HERE.
UI Rights Center to Hand Out Awards
05.09.05 by Christina Erb, The Daily Iowan
The UICHR will award seven UI students scholarships this week for securing national or international internships in the human-rights field. For full story click HERE.
UICHR Selects 'When the Emperor was Divine' for Community Reading Project
04.26.05 University of Iowa News Release
Johnson County readers will gain new insights on human rights in the United States by participating this fall in the fifth annual "One Community, One Book-Johnson County Reads" project, sponsored by the UICHR. The center, in conjunction with representatives from other sponsoring organizations from Iowa City, Coralville and the UI, has selected "When the Emperor was Divine" (Anchor, 2003) by Julie Otsuka for its fall 2005 project. For full press release click HERE.
