Human Rights Institute

The Human Rights Institute promotes excellence and innovation in faculty research across disciplines and develops high-impact student engagement in human rights issues.

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The Binghamton University Human Rights Institute (HRI) advances research, teaching and community engagement in human rights. We bring a transdisciplinary human rights perspective to important social problems and contribute to evidence-based policymaking as well as critical discourses in human rights. Drawing upon Binghamton University's research excellence and New York state's rich history advocating and advancing human rights, the HRI develops initiatives with rights-based perspectives to impact public policy in New York state, the United States and internationally. We welcome new affiliates.

REGISTRATION is now open (click here for more information on preconference workshops, keynote speakers, and more!)
Pre-conference workshops will be held April 22; the conference runs April 23-25, 2020

HRI in the News! Check out this recent story in BingU News about three students' work at a Refugee Family Reunification Clinic in Britain last summer: Students Work to Reunite Refugees with Families. Congratulations to Rachel DiSibio, Lizzie Nutig, and Daniel Singh Guzman on their outstanding work.

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Past events:

October 28, 2019 4 pm, LN 1106 Professor Horace Bartilow, University of Kentucky, "Drug War Capitalism"

April 12-13, 2019

Technologies of Human Rights Representation: A SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines
Binghamton University Art Museum

Keynote

Eric Gottesman

For Freedoms: Art as Civic Infrastructure

book series flyer

New undergraduate and graduate curricula
• Human Rights Minor
• Freshman Research Immersion in Human Rights

• MS in Human Rights

Summer Internships!

See our Students page for more information on two exciting summer internship opportunities:

Human Rights Quarterly editorial internship
Sheffield Hallam University (UK) refugee and family reunification internship

2018 Annual Report