human rights

A team of students and a faculty director stand in a line before the projected cover of their report on the assassination of Berta Cáceres.

Law

How a Berkeley Law team helped detail the assassination of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres

A small international panel featuring Roxanna Altholz, director of the Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley Law, with support from a team of students, detail the political assassination Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres in a new report.

A group of people sit in chairs in two rows. Some have laptops on their laps. Two camera monitors also display their image, implying they are being filmed.

Law

UC Berkeley students’ human rights research was highlighted in pulled ’60 Minutes’ story

Men standing on a white truck watch over a vineyard as the Point Fire burns nearby in Healdsburg, on June 16, 2024.

Research

Most of Wine Country’s agricultural workers have been exposed to wildfires, new survey finds

About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

Bernice Yeung, Isabella Gomes and Holly Joshi sit at a long table with microphones in front of them

Berkeley Talks: Protecting survivors of sex trafficking

Berkeley Talks: International journalists on women’s rights in Iran and Afghanistan

Decorations mark the graves of men and women in Bucha, Ukraine, who were killed by invading Russian troops after the invasion in February 2022

In Ukraine, Berkeley experts are shaping the legal fight against war crimes

Graphic collage featuring photos of two young women holding protest signs opposing abortion, set against a round birth-control pill dispenser.

UC Berkeley reporting reveals birth control disinformation campaign

a woman in a protest who has red hand prints on her cheeks and holds a sign with three girls and women killed by the Iranian government

‘A mix of hope and sorrow’: Campus community reflects on Iran uprising

Eric Stover at a grave site in Bosnia in 2016, with apparent human bones in his right hand, during the filming of the PBS documentary

A legacy of truth: 40 years of investigating the forcibly disappeared

a red silhouette of the hooded figure famously tortured by U.S. military officials at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison nearly 20 years ago is superimposed on a monochromatic purple etching of a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition 400 years ago.l

The tortures of the Spanish Inquisition hold dark lessons for our time

a person speaks with a colorful circle diagram on the wall behind her

Berkeley Talks: Damilola Ogunbiyi on driving an equitable energy transition

A photo of a woman standing against a wall made of corrugated metal, holding up a cell phone. The screen of the phone reads,

Cellphone data, machine learning help target humanitarian aid in Togo

an informal portrait of Khwaga Ghani outdoors in the East Bay

Taliban gunshots echo through Khwaga Ghani’s new life at Berkeley

Maryam Karimi stands with her hand on a tree

Maryam Karimi: This generation in Afghanistan will not give up

people lined up in the desert in front of barbed wire

Berkeley students, staff and faculty launch Afghan scholar rescue campaign

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