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.
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.
This week brings the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, when a militant Islamist organization, al-Qaeda, mounted a series of terrorist attacks on US soil, murdering thousands. The American government’s response to those attacks over the last two decades, primarily its “War on Terror,” and the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, left deep scars on global human rights.
According to one estimate, the global refugee population has more than doubled over the past decade to 26 million. Professor Keith Watenpaugh, director of the Human Rights Studies program at UC Davis, leads an innovative project to help refugee students start or continue their university education — even as they’re displaced and on the move.
April is Genocide Awareness Month: In the Face of Ongoing and Unacknowledged Genocides, What Does this April Mean?
Listen to Dr. Watenpaugh talk about Genocide Awareness Month on CapRadio.
It’s a tough juxtaposition.
April in Northern California is our most beautiful month. The poppies are in bloom. The vineyards are turning green. Students spread blankets on the Quad and study and sleep under a warming Sun. We experience Aprils, especially this April, as a time of renewal and rebirth.
