Let's Talk Human Rights

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.

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.

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.

Exploring how human rights, environmental protection, and economic innovation converge on Ghana’s shores to confront the global plastics crisis.

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).

On April 15, 2025, the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, in collaboration with the University of The Bahamas and the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, officially launched the report “Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Commemorating the International Decade for People of African Descent and the Human Rights of Women and Girls.”

Read about student, Eric Litterer's experience attending the Eradicate Global Hate Summit in Pittsburgh in October with the PREVENTS-OH project team.  

“Women of African descent have been the most oppressed and vulnerable group of women for 500 years; because of the exploitation, because of the building of an identity that was not ours, and a building of a narrative that has kept us discriminated against. And so, in the event that we have another decade [on people for African descent]. I have already placed in my report to the United Nations in November of this year the perspective that if we have another decade that it must also focus on issues related to women of African descent. We cannot for another 10 years be at the bottom of every relevant statistic globally.”

After working with coffee almost every day for 3 months, I will never experience a hot glass of that rich drink the same.

Kevin spent his summer in The Gambia working with The Center for Research and Policy Development—a non-profit, non-partisan entity dedicated to social research, advocacy, and capacity building for inclusive democratic governance.