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Presented by Dr. Jodi Olsen. This event is presented in partnership with the College of Social and Behavioral Science

During the event, you will hear from Israeli activists Itamar Feigenbaum and Elie Avidor, who provide critical support to the shepherds in the Jordan Valley.

The Latinx/Hispanic Health and Heritage Fair (LHHHF) kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month in Salt Lake City each year! September 7, 2024, marks the 9th year!

Join Combatants for Peace and American Friends of Combatants for Peace on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 to watch the film Hurdle and then hear from the film's director, Michael Rowley.

The Tanner Center for Human Rights is co-sponsoring the Women of the World fashion gala 6:30PM on March 6, 2024.

Guest Speaker Mary Muthengi, BSN, speaks about obstetric safe surgery on January 17, 2024

Immerse yourself in a day of powerful discussions with influential speakers. Discover how sports can drive positive social change, boost economies, and unite communities globally.

Come hear from Rushan Abbas, founder of Campaign for Uyghurs, a U.S.-based nonprofit that advocates and promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for Uyghurs, and mobilizes the international community to act to stop the human rights atrocity in East Turkistan.

A presentation covering Vietnam's postwar reconciliation with the U.S.

Seminar on peace and quality of life from different social and health aspects

Women of the World's Annual Fashion Show & Gala is our most important & impactful fundraising event of the year. Your generous sponsorship helps build the bridge of unity and support between us and our forcibly displaced neighbors. This unique event gives our friends and clients an opportunity to share not only the cultural dress from their home countries but also the powerful stories of their journey toward self-reliance here in their new home in Utah.

As part of the Day of Collective Action on February 8th, join Amnesty International and the Tanner Center for Human Rights at the CSBS Student Success Center (located in GC 2455) between 9am to 4pm to write a letter on behalf of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, and others at risk of human rights violations. Write a letter, change a life, and get a free lunch! All are welcome!

The Women of the World Fashion Show is our biggest and most important fundraising event of the year. When you sponsor our fashion show, you help build the bridge for unity and support between us and our refugee neighbors.

Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction. As the “mother of the addicts,” she must prevail over a crisis of addiction and a corrupt government in a country on the verge of collapse.

Interested in global health? Interested in hearing from a global health leader who has spent over 20 years working in conflict environments? Join us for this 60-minute interactive dialogue that will elevate your understanding of global health in conflict zones.

Write for Rights is Amnesty International’s largest annual human rights campaign.The best thing about Write for Rights is that it works! Each year, we write letters to support people and help end other abuses, such as individuals who are wrongfully imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their beliefs or identity—people we call prisoners of conscience.

Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? Learn more at our event on the 18th and 19th of November.

To launch the Tanner Humanities Center's 2020-2021 series on "Technology and the Humanities," Ruha Benjamin will join Tanner Humanities Center Director Erika George for a Tanner Talk on the intersections of race, justice and technology.

Interested in global health? Interested in challenging the gender inequities in global health leadership? Join us for this 60-minute interactive dialogue that will strengthen your ability to transform global health leadership. This session will examine: - The gender gap in global health leadership - Gender transformative leadership - Power and privilege in global health - Women’s movement’s in bringing social change Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (MT)

The Tanner Center for Human Rights is sponsoring an upcoming screening of ‘The Hate U Give’ at the Utah Film Center's Drive-In Series. A discounted rate is available for students by using the code: SWOOP. All Utah Film Center drive-ins follow public health safety protocols for COVID. Tickets can be purchased through their website here! Friday, September 11th | 7:30pm

Join the Tanner Center For Human Rights and Utah Film Center for the upcoming Through The Lens event with a FREE livestream of the film BOYS STATE, Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 , 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Join the Tanner Center For Human Rights and Utah Film Center for the upcoming Through The Lens event with a FREE livestream of the film PUBLIC TRUST and post-film Q&A with director David Byars moderated by KUER RadioWest’s host Doug Fabrizio. June 24th | 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Be part of the world's largest human rights letter writing campaign. Join us, write a letter, change a life and learn about our Amnesty International U of U chapter.

Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land will be hosting two speakers on tour with Combatants for Peace. The speakers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, both former combatants, will share their personal stories about why and how they came to advocate for non-violent solution to end the occupation and end the conflict.

Over 4000 people attended the historic 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Among those on the planning committee was Tanner Center for Human Rights Associate Director, Aleta Tew.

Join us for an exciting and lively lecture with Emmanuel Jal, a South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor, former child soldier, and political activist – Tuesday, September 24, 12-1:00pm, in Gardner Commons, Rm. 2018 – This Pizza and Politics Forum is free and open to the public.

Irene Taylor Brodsky builds on her powerful first feature, Hear and Now (Audience Award winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival), by delving into an intergenerational exploration of living with deafness. Brodsky’s son Jonas began losing his hearing as a baby and underwent cochlear-implant surgery as a toddler. Now 11 years old, Jonas has adjusted to a world with sound and is learning to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. It’s being weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare.

Salt Lake City will host the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference on August 26 – 28, 2019. The Conference is traditionally held at UN Headquarters and this year will be the first time the event is held in the United States outside of New York. Register and be part of UN history!

Aleta Tew chosen as a 2018-19 Excellence in Global Engagement Awardee. As the Associate Director of the Tanner Center for Human Rights, her nominators emphasized her deep commitment to educating students and the community about human rights.

Speaking to the Deseret News about his human rights essay, Privileged, as published in The Players Tribune, Mr. Korver listed four things he's trying to do to become part of the solution to the problems of racism.

On April 2, 2019, the Salt Lake City Council members made history when they voted unanimously in support of a resolution calling to prevent nuclear war. The resolution was the culmination of cooperation among the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (UCAN), Mayor Jackie Biskupski and her staff, city council members. The event coincided with a visit from Susi Snyder, a leader in the global coalition International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which works to promote adherence to and full implementation of the United Nations treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Time: 7:00 PM Cost: Free Venue: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Address: 138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City, UT Without warning, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Once inside, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants, all imprisoned without trial.

Susi Snyder, is coming to Utah. She brings insight to the power of bringing democracy back to disarmament and teaches how every single person can do something impactful to bring an end to the threat of nuclear weapons.

The Hinckley Institute of Politics and the Tanner Center for Human Rights present the forum on "Human Rights and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen." Speakers are Scott Paul, Humanitarian Policy Lead, Oxfam and Andrea Prasow, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch – Thursday, March, 21, 1-2 pm in Gardner Commons, Rm. 2018 – This Pizza and Politics Forum is free and open to the public.

Samira Harnish: Building a Community around Self-Reliance and Trust

Find out how labor force participation and employment among immigrants compares with those who were born here.

E. Tendayi Achiume presents on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The Tanner for Human Rights Center in collaboration with the School for Cultural and Social Transformation

Migrants have taken a prominent place on the public stage in recent years, from divided political rhetoric on status of migrants in the United States, to news of migrant caravans traveling to the U.S. from South America, to the changing landscape of immigration law in the country, such as the upheaval of asylum availability or family separation at the border. These individuals are at significant risk for trafficking. Many are lured into migration by promise of employment, safety, or legitimate status in the country of immigration. Others are victims of crime such as kidnapping or sex crimes. The result is often enslavement, violence, torture and even threats of death.

Every person has the same human rights simply because we are all human beings. Human rights rules set the standard for civil societies for to the full development of individuals and communities. The Tanner Center for Human Rights empowers teachers and students to become with the skills and attitudes needed to promote equality, dignity and respect in our communities, societies, and worldwide.

The University of Utah Board of Trustees awarded Barbara Tanner an honorary doctorate degree at the 2018 commencement ceremony this past Spring. The award is the highest honor given by the university.

And now, it has come to this. “We are trading kids in cages for families in cages,” said Cory Smith of Kids in Need of Defense, a legal advocacy group on whose board I serve. On Wednesday, President Trump said in an executive order that he planned to keep families together by jailing parents and children together during the course of their immigration hearings.

Dolores Huerta has worked to improve social and economic conditions for farm workers and to fight discrimination. Dolores Huerta, 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom will speak on the rights of immigrants in the United States at the Hinckley Institute of Politics on March 14 at noon. This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided Hinckley Caucus Room- Building 73, Room 110

March 14, 2018 – 7:00PM at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave.

It is students like Miguel that make being an educator worthwhile. As a social scientist, I tend toward statistics, like those highlighting how immigration benefits Utah’s economy. Yet, I know, personal stories are often more powerful than statistics.

We are thrilled to announce that we will have Pulitzer Prize winning author, Sonia Nazario as our keynote speaker for our 2018 Forum. Her book "Enrique's Journey" chronicles the experiences of Latin American children who immigrate to join their parents in the United States.