UConn Human Rights Conference and Film Series

October 22-24, 2009: Human Rights in the USA Conference sponsored by the Human Rights Institute and UConn School of Law
The “Human Rights in the USA.” Conference at the University of Connecticut in Fall 2009 will evaluate how international human rights laws and norms are presently applied in the USA and will suggest recommendations for the [...]

India: The Sex Workers

This video and report are from 2004. Coming soon will be an update to this topic. –Kathy
FRONTLINE/World . Video | PBS
In the heart of Mumbai, India [also known as Bombay] lies Kamathipura, one of the country’s poorest districts and also its largest red light district, home to more than 60,000 sex workers. In the spring [...]

Enough! The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity

Cell phone statistics reported by Jason Griffey, July 12, 2009, and posted on The Shifted Librarian

numbers (because this arena is very important for us)
4,100,000,000 number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world
over 60% of the people on earth have a mobile phone subscription service
in 50 different countries around the world, the number of cellphones per [...]

HAITI: Women “More Protected” to Report Sexual Violence – IPS ipsnews.net

HAITI: Women “More Protected” to Report Sexual Violence – IPS ipsnews.net
Port-au-Prince, Jul 22 (IPS) – It has been five years since the U.N. sent peacekeepers to Haiti following the forced departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the country, while not in a state of war, remains one of the world’s most unstable.
Kidnappings, criminal violence, [...]

Vital Voices Blog » Study Reveals 10,000 Women Sex-Trafficked Every Year in Mexico

Vital Voices Blog » Study Reveals 10,000 Women Sex-Trafficked Every Year in Mexico.

In a study presented on July 20 in Monterrey, Mexico, data revealed that approximately 10,000 women are trafficked for sexual exploitation annually from southern and central Mexico into northern Mexico. The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that the study found that women were [...]

IntLawGrrls: Ebadi on the death penalty

IntLawGrrls: Ebadi on the death penalty

We have been observing a constant deterioration of the human rights situation since 2005. In 2008, for example, we saw that there had been a 300% increase in executions in the prior 3 years! Speaking proportionally, Iran has surpassed even China: there were 355 executions in Iran, a country of [...]

US: Act to Prevent Rape in War | Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/13/us-act-prevent-rape-war
Today there’s a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee co-sponored by Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold to agree to put pressure on the United Nations to ACT not simply report on rape in war
Sexual violence against women and girls has been a horrifying characteristic of all recent armed conflicts and many post-conflict situations. Human [...]

Afghanistan Women’s Struggle: Sitara Achakzai & Mary Wollstonecraft

Let women be Enlightened
Helen Irving
April 24, 2009
The assassination of a leading Afghan women’s rights activist, Sitara Achakzai, this month was yet another tragic reminder that equality between the sexes is far from accepted in the world today. Achakzai, who spent the years of Taliban rule in exile in Europe, returned to her country five years [...]

2008 Socially Conscious Gift Giving

Updated for 2008!
If you’d like to be a more socially conscious consumer, here are some organizations, some local, some online, where you can purchase gifts while making a difference in the lives of real people. These suggestions come from two of our UConn professors who teach and embody the ideals of these organizations. [...]

New DVD at Babbidge: Sita, a Girl from Jambu

Sita, a Girl from Jambu
Sita, a Girl from Jambu
by Kathleen J Man

“SITA shows a complex and original narrative strategy rare in documentaries, and perfect for its subject matter.”
–Sarah Kozloff, Professor of Film, Vassar College

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> Reviews & Awards
> Filmmaker Bio
> Film Web Site

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