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During Spring Quarter 2022, we polled students (n=90) in three Human Rights Studies classes (two upper division and one lower) about their interest in having a Human Rights related internship as well as the financial hurdles they experienced taking advantage of internships. The majority of Human Rights related internships are unpaid and typically ask interns to volunteer anywhere from 20-40 hours of their time per week.

University of California, Davis – The Article 26 Backpack now includes Ukrainian and Russian in order to meet the challenges for displaced people and refugees as a result of the recent war in Ukraine. This advancement will help displaced students, researchers, scientists, and human rights activists, all of whom are targets in Putin’s war on higher education.

Undergraduate Advising as a full team. Please welcome Anna Pendleton and Veronica Munoz! Make an appointment from the below link for any advising needs:

https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39

Responding to a question from the audience about the despair many young people feel in the face of current human rights problems and how those who believe that change is possible are marginalized and called “naïve,” Mark Arax, this year’s distinguished Dr. Shant and Robin Garabedian Lecturer explained to both a live and online audience:

Noted scholar of genocide, Alexander Hinton, citing both the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian institutions and families and the embrace of the specious argument by Putin and others that the war against Ukraine is an effort to cleanse — to “de-Nazify” — is evidence enough that beyond war crimes and crimes against humanity, Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.  I’m in general agreement with Hinton, especially as news of the

UC Davis Global Affairs and UC Davis Human Rights Studies  is encouraging Ukrainian students, professionals, and human rights advocates to use the UC Davis Backpack to safeguard academic documents, diplomas, transcripts, professional certificates and credentials, and other sensitive materials  from loss.

UC Davis Human Rights Studies, in collaboration with The History Project at UC Davis, and CSU Fresno hosted 10 high-school educators for a weekend-long workshop as part of the “Human Rights Studies for 21st Century Californians” project.  Pivoting quickly to online, Director of Human Rights S

It is with great sadness, and condolences to the people of South Africa, that the UC Davis Human RIghts Studies Program marks the passing of human rights hero and leader of the anti-Apartheid movement, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  Bishop Tutu’s death gives us the joyful opportunity, too, to recall his 1985 tour of US college and university campuses to build awareness of the Anti-Apartheid movement and support for economic sanctions, including divestment, against the racist South African régime.

The Backpack enrollment team from our partner organization Kepler, Sadiki Bamperineza, Habinshuti Irankunda, and Josephine Uwizeye, led 120 refugees enroll in Backpack last week at the Kiziba Refugee Camp.

Mr. Bamperineza noted that the “event was good and fulfilling.”