Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

We loved celebrating our 2026 Human Rights Certificate graduates last weekend! Congratulations to these five wonderful students!

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Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize! We're honored to award Phoenix Chapital and Mariana Meza for their outstanding academic work in human rights during the 2025-2026 school year. Learn more about their award-winning projects on the DHRC blog!

2026 Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize Winners Announced | Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute From the 2026 Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize Judges Professors Claudia Koonz, Adam Rosenblatt, Betsy Albright, and Wylin WilsonWe are excited to award the 2026 Oliver

We've awarded our Human Rights Summer Research Grant to 8 fantastic students this year! Click the link below to learn more about their projects.
These students will be sharing an inside look into their experiences through blog posts, which will be featured on the Duke Human Rights Blog throughout the summer and fall. Get updates on their research by signing up for our newsletter and visiting our blog!

2026 Human Rights Summer Research Grant Awardees Announced | Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute We've awarded the Human Rights Summer Research Grant to eight outstanding students this year! These students will receive up to $2,000 each to support their student-drive

Join us on April 23rd as we celebrate our human rights capstone students' hard work this semester! This year, the capstone project explores history and justice in Durham, focusing on the legacy of the Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center. Lunch provided!

Join Duke Human Rights Center@FHI for our Summer Read Kickoff Lunch! We're inviting students, faculty, staff, and community members to join us this summer in reading Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots.

The Kickoff Lunch will be a time to meet each other, hear a bit about the book, and receive your free copy! We will meet again in the early fall semester to discuss the book and its implications in our human rights work. Thank you to Professor Juliette Duara for collaborating with DHRC on this project!

If you'd like to participate in the DHRC Summer Read (whether you can attend the Kickoff Lunch or not), please sign-up here! https://forms.gle/nmLMLJ4mWavhYKZY8

Duke Human Rights Center Director Adam Rosenblatt and student Beyond Borders organizer Leila Zak recently co-authored a column in the Duke Chronicle advocating that Duke University become a Fourth Amendment campus.

Before ICE comes knocking: Duke must become a Fourth Amendment campus On Feb. 26, five plainclothes immigration agents arrived at a Columbia University-owned apartment building and told the superintendent they were police officers searching for a missing child, using fake badges. This, or worse, could easily happen at Duke.

We are excited to share our Student Advisory Board's upcoming event, Human Rights Across the Professions! They have three wonderful human rights professionals and Duke alum joining them for a career panel on working in human rights. The event is Sunday, March 22, from 11am to 1pm, in Social Sciences 136.

Duke Event Calendar Hosted by the Student Advisory Board of the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI. Network and learn from human rights professionals. Refreshments will be provided!