Human Rights Center

• 1K Presenters

  Capture important research trends across disciplines

• 6 Conferences

  Enable critical reflection on research on and for advocacy

• 1 Goal

  Bridge the divide between scholars and practitioners

SPHR 2023: Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African Descent

Read a reflection of the three day conference.

• Reflections from SPHR23

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SPHR 2021

SPHR 21 convened to address the challenges and opportunities the pandemic has created for human rights advocacy. We considered whether current human rights methods, strategies, and approaches are comprehensive, deep, and bold enough to meet this moment and what is needed to leverage this moment for improved human rights outcomes.

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SPHR 2021

SPHR 21 convened to address the challenges and opportunities the pandemic has created for human rights advocacy. We considered whether current human rights methods, strategies, and approaches are comprehensive, deep, and bold enough to meet this moment and what is needed to leverage this moment for improved human rights outcomes.

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SPHR 2019

SPHR 2019 convened to address high-risk threats that present themselves with unprecedented urgency. The discussion revolved around collaborative efforts with hope and innovation, building sustainable movements and disruptive methods even when it means, to quote Pope Francis, “going against the grain.”

SPHR 2019

SPHR 2019 convened to address high-risk threats that present themselves with unprecedented urgency. The discussion revolved around collaborative efforts with hope and innovation, building sustainable movements and disruptive methods even when it means, to quote Pope Francis, “going against the grain.”

SPHR 2017

SPHR 2017 explored challenges to advocacy posed by racism, xenophobia, other forms of extremism, and what Pope Francis has termed “the globalization of indifference.”

SPHR 2017

SPHR 2017 explored challenges to advocacy posed by racism, xenophobia, other forms of extremism, and what Pope Francis has termed “the globalization of indifference.”

SPHR 2015

From research panels and roundtables to keynote addresses and plenaries, SPHR 2015 focused on the Sustainable Development Goals.

SPHR 2015

From research panels and roundtables to keynote addresses and plenaries, SPHR 2015 focused on the Sustainable Development Goals.

SPHR 2013

SPHR 2013 presenters engaged in constructive critique of the human rights movement to strengthen the human rights movement’s capacity to confront emerging threats to human dignity and rights.

SPHR 2013

SPHR 2013 presenters engaged in constructive critique of the human rights movement to strengthen the human rights movement’s capacity to confront emerging threats to human dignity and rights.

Publication

What is the Social Practice of Human Rights?

SPHR bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. This volume brings together cutting-edge chapters that together set a new agenda for research, grounded in the practice of critical self-reflection on the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights.

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