This month we hosted a special 15th Anniversary Spring Symposium & Awards Celebration, highlighting a storytelling collab between UW students, LaResistencia_NW, & HintonPublishing

Don't miss this recent write-up in the UW Daily covering the evening's event:
dailyuw.com/news/uw-center…

“I was pretty shocked,” she [UWCHR director Godoy] said. “Because it showed that everything in his letter was true, and that he had never been accused, much less convicted, of child molestation, and yet that was very clearly mentioned in the ICE records.”

crosscut.com/investigations…

Expanded real-time automated license plate readers (ALPR) threatens to circumvent the Keep WA Working Act which safeguards Immigrants, WA's 2023 Sheild law protecting abortion & gender-affirming care seekers.
University of Washington Center for Human Rights produced a report about this in 2022. 3/4

“These are human beings; they have lives. [ICE and Geo Group] aren’t treating them like human beings.”

2 months after the death of 61-year-old detainee Charles Leo Daniel, advocates from LaResistencia_NW & University of Washington Center for Human Rights are demanding answers from Tacoma's NWDC.
realchangenews.org/news/2024/05/0…

It's not too late to register for our Spring Symposium and Awards Celebration, happening this Thursday!

Join us Mon, May 13, to hear from Prof. Stuart Streichler on his new book, “Presidential Accountability in Wartime,” in conversation with UW Political Science Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld

May 13, 3:30–5 pm
The Petersen Room, Allen Library, UW Seattle

More info: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/ev…

ICYMI: Catch the recording of our April 4 panel, Rule of Law, Democratic Transitions, and Authoritarianism in Afghanistan featuring Ramin Mansoori Bashir Mobasher Shamshad Pasarlay and Anila Daulatzai, with moderator Aria Fani

UW Jackson School University of Washington Center for Human Rights UW MiddleEast Center MESA
youtu.be/qALdNYnbYMw?si…

UWCHR partners faculty, students, & on-the-ground #HumanRights orgs, resulting in research aiming to make real-world change.

Watch our research in action as Senator Patty Murray cites UWCHR, questioning Alejandro Mayorkas in recent Senate Approp. Committee hearing.

➡️youtube.com/watch?v=C2iwJ6…

'More than a month after a man died at an immigrant detention center in Tacoma, federal officials released a report, as required by Congress. The report lacked one key detail: a cause of death.'

Nina Shapiro covers update on Daniel's death at the NWDC.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…

Please join us Thurs, 5/16 for a special 15 anniversary edition of our Spring Symposium & Awards Celebration!

Featuring a storytelling project collaboration with UW students, immigrant rights group LaResistencia_NW, & HintonPublishing.

More info & RSVP: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/ev…

Interested in minoring in #HumanRights ?

Learn more and explore the UW Seattle Autumn 2024 Human Rights Minor Course Offerings list:
➡️jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/hu…

UWCHR is excited to co-sponsor this upcoming film screening and discussion with Garrett Felber, put on by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies

Join us this Thursday, April 18th
Communications Rm 120
4-5:30 PM

More info:
jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/ev…

At least six suicide attempts occurred at a federal, privately-owned immigration detention center in Tacoma over less than three months this year, according to Pierce County 911 call records. washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/04/10/at-…

ICYMI, records obtained by University of Washington Center for Human Rights, show at least six suicide attempts at the ICE facility in Tacoma so far this year. One person tried to jump from the second floor. Another tried to asphyxiate herself with a trash bag. More: knkx.org/social-justice…

.University of Washington Center for Human Rights obtained 911 calls showing at least six suicide attempts at the detention center in tacoma.

i listened to all six calls. what struck me the most was how unconcerned the callers sounded. as if it was just another day on the job.

washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/04/10/at-…

I spoke with Nina Shapiro about @UWCHR's ongoing research into conditions at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. We recently obtained 911 calls documenting at least 6 suicide attempts at the facility this year so far: