Recent News

by Arman Kassam, Handa Center student assistant

On Wednesday night, 65 members of the Stanford community gathered for a screening of 82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us. This documentary, produced by the United States Holocaust…

Handa Center Faculty Fellow Beth Van Schaack, a core collaborator in Stanford's Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health (HRTMH) Program, recently published a slate of articles on the US policy of separating migrant children from their families at…

Stanford Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program affiliates Ryan Matlow, Ph.D., and Daryn Reicherter, M.D., recently wrote a perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine on the United States’ migrant family separation proposal.…

Alina Utrata '17, one of the first Stanford students to graduate with a minor in Human Rights (HR), spoke to an audience of undergraduates about opportunities available through the Handa Center, as well as life after graduation. The Stanford…

Handa Center Research Fellow Sarah Chynoweth recently published a report through the Women's Refugee Commission on sexual violence in the Rohingya refugee community. The volume, "'It’s Happening to Our Men as Well': Sexual Violence Against…

Dr. Daryn Reicherter, director of Stanford’s Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program (HRTMH), recently contributed to a landmark court ruling on rape in Fiji. Program Director Dr. Reicherter testified in the appeal hearing of a man convicted…

Ryan Matlow, an core affiliate of Stanford’s Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program, spearheaded a letter to the Trump administration detailing the negative physical and mental health effects of detention on immigrant and refugee families…

On November 1, 2018, the Handa Center for Human Rights & International Justice recently hosted our Annual Lecture on International Justice: a distinguished panel representing the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims.…

Handa Center Research Fellow Natasha Dolby recently spoke to an audience at Stanford about the findings of her publication, Domestic Sex Trafficking of Children in Brazil. In her paper, she highlights the cultural norms that sexualize girls and…

From immigrants rights at the Mexico border to the right to asylum for refugees in Greece, Handa Center Summer Human Rights Fellows have scattered to seven cities across the globe in an effort to better understand – and help address – some of the…

To encourage new curricular pathways, Stanford Global Studies (SGS) provides grants to support courses that creatively engage students in learning about global issues. Next year course innovation grants will support two new Human Rights courses:…

Every summer, hundreds of Stanford students leave the Farm to complete service fellowships through the Cardinal Quarter program. The initiative offers students the opportunity to participate in a full-time, quarter-long public service experience…

The Stanford Daily captures the essence of LIYANA, the film screened by the Handa Center for the Stanford Global Studies Summer Film Festival on June 27, 2018.

The full article is below or can be read at The Stanford Daily here.…

Human Rights Minor Alexis Kallen '18 received the 2018 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education. The award is named after the late president of the Board of Trustees who served from 1953…

The Handa Center is pleased to announce a generous gift to advance research on the rule of law at Stanford University. The gift from Desierto & Desierto Law support an annual Rule of Law Fellow and the Handa Center Annual Lecture on the Rule…

Building on previous research related to human trafficking prevalence in Southeast Asia, Handa Center Program Manager Jessie Brunner authored two new publications this Spring: Getting to Good Human Trafficking Data: Everyday Guidelines for…

Congratulations to Human Rights Minor Ibrahim Bharmal ’18 on receiving the Stanford Alumni Association’s 2018 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for outstanding service to Stanford! This a well-deserved award for Bharmal, who has had a tremendous impact…

Handa Center Faculty Fellow Beth Van Schaackis currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. During her fellowship, Van Schaack has been thinking creatively about how the…

Dr. Desiree Desierto, Handa Center Research Fellow, has two forthcoming publications: "Formal Models of the Political Resource Curse” in Economics of Governance, and "What Resource Curse? The Null Effect of Remittances on Public Good Provision"…

Handa Center Research Fellow Sarah Chynoweth co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet titled, “Implementing sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian crises.”  

The correspondence states:

We applaud the call made by…