Rights Beyond Words: Mapping Human Rights Scholar-Organization Partnerships

The University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute invites OSUN members to attend a colloquium on NGO-Scholar Engagement with Zehra Arat & Shareen Hertel.

Zehra Arat is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UConn. She studies human rights, with an emphasis on women’s rights, as well as processes of democratization, globalization, and development.

Shareen Hertel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UConn, jointly appointed with the Human Rights Institute. Her research focuses on changes in transnational human rights advocacy, with a focus on labor and economic rights issues.

For many human rights scholars, human rights is more than intellectual curiosity; it is the motivation for their work. They try to use their research and expertise to improve human rights conditions and work with policy makers and advocacy groups. The work of Arat and Hertel explores the complexities of partnerships between scholars and human rights organizations and groups (HROGs). Focusing primarily on the experience of social science and humanities scholars with a range of HROGs, they identify areas of tension, as well as the political implications of such engagement, marking a critical step toward developing a more formal typology of such relationships that can be used to further explore variation in human rights outcomes stemming from such collaboration.

Register here to join this online event.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822,
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Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Online Event

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