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Human Rights
12.22.2025
Women, Peace & Security in an Era of Expanding Global
Threats
New and emerging global threats from nuclear instability to AI-driven warfare are reshaping what security means for the world. But we often don’t consider what this means specifically for fifty percent of the world, that is, women. Reflecting on Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins' visit, this blog explores these gendered impacts and why the Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda must evolve to meet today’s threats. And I consider how this shifting political and security landscape connects to my work at the Human Rights Center.
Human Rights
12.5.2025
Digital Harm, Real Impact - Part
3
As young women spend more of their lives online, digital spaces have become both powerful tools and dangerous spaces. Around the world, youth are turning technology into a force for safety, justice, and change.
Human Rights
12.3.2025
Digital Harm, Real Impact - Part
2
To conclude our time studying Gender, Women's Rights, and Global Politics, my peers and I have been asked to participate in the annual 16 Days of Activism campaign. More specifically, we have been researching the lack of information and data available on the issue of targeted digital violence against women.
Human Rights
12.1.2025
Digital Harm, Real Impact - Part
1
Examining the growing threat of online gender-based violence against women and girls in West and Central Africa and outlining the legal, institutional, and technological reforms needed to create a safer, more inclusive digital space.
11.7.2025
Honoring the Dayton Peace Accords 30th Anniversary
Ahead of the 30th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords, UD hosts Bosnian students for day of learning about democracy and dialogue.
10.30.2025
Navigating Immigration
Law
See how Sergio Fernández ’22 is using what he learned at Dayton Law to help people trying to immigrate to the United States.
Human Rights
10.10.2025
A Right to a Clean Coastline: Confronting Plastic Pollution in
Ghana
Exploring how human rights, environmental protection, and economic innovation converge on Ghana’s shores to confront the global plastics crisis.
Human Rights
9.17.2025
#SPHR26 Call for
Proposals
The University of Dayton Human Rights Center is excited to announce the call for proposals for the Social Practice of Human Rights (SPHR) 2026 Conference: Creative Resistance—Artivism, Technology, and the Right to Dissent, taking place April 9–11, 2026 in Dayton, Ohio (with hybrid options available).
6.2.2025
Moral Courage Project students document Atlanta ‘Stop Cop City’
protests
The Moral Courage Project takes UD students into the field to document communities during times of crisis.
5.30.2025
'Dayton' — Shorthand for
Peace
In a spacious hangar in the National Museum of the United States Air Force last Sunday night, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a stirring performance before world leaders and guests. It was an extraordinary opportunity to be part of history as more than 1,000 visitors from 45 nations gathered in Dayton for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.