Human Rights Studies Content

Fictional Adventure in Egypt To Become Reality for Top ΢��Ƶ Graduate

Julia Ann Easley — June 11, 2024 - 9:00am

One of the books in the “Magic Tree House” series for children takes a brother and sister to the Egyptian pyramids.

Brooke Morey of Redwood City, California, was 8 when she joined the characters on that adventure and read the book’s nonfiction companion about the pyramids and mummies. “I was just hooked.”

Then and there she resolved to become an Egyptologist. “Every decision I’ve made in regard to my academic career has been with that in mind.”

LAURELS: Award for Human Rights Education

Dave Jones — November 30, 2021 - 3:27pm

Recent faculty honors, among them an award to Professor Keith David Watenpaugh for achievement in human rights education.

New Episode of ‘The Backdrop’ Podcast Features Keith Watenpaugh on Helping Refugees Reclaim Their Right to Education

Soterios J Johnson — June 29, 2021 - 11:50am

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 ΢��Ƶ, leads an innovative project to help refugee students start or continue their university education — even as they are displaced and on the move.

What Does International Human Rights Day Commemorate?

Karen Michele Nikos — December 09, 2020 - 4:56pm

Thursday, Dec. 10 commemorates the 72nd anniversary of Human Rights Day. It marks when in 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt ushered in the modern human rights era by presenting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the United Nations for approval. The acceptance of that document by the nations of the U.N. is what we commemorate today.

΢��Ƶ helps Syrian refugees reclaim right to education

Julia Ann Easley — November 14, 2018 - 2:22pm

In Lebanon, Syrian refugees are reclaiming the human right to education with help from the University of California, Davis.

As that right — in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ Article 26 — marks 70 years in December, they are rewriting the narrative around what it means to be a refugee.

Ford Foundation Supports ΢��Ƶ Efforts to Help Refugees Reclaim Right to Education

Julia Ann Easley — October 23, 2017 - 11:28am

The University of California, Davis, will use a $500,000 core grant from the Ford Foundation to develop Article 26 Backpack, a cloud-based “ecosystem” to help refugees and other vulnerable young people reclaim their education.

A Matter of Rights

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 19, 2017 - 8:56am

Last year, at the abandoned Idomeni train station in Greece, I spoke with Kurdish sisters from Syria. They were living in a makeshift refugee camp on the nearby border with Macedonia. Just a week before, a small boat had carried them across the Aegean from Turkey. Back home, the women, both in their 20s, had studied health sciences at the University of Aleppo.