UAB Institute for Human Rights

Join us for a week full of events on Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening! Wednesday’s conversation will focus on maternal health and reproductive rights. Thursday afternoon will highlight international relations and careers in the public sector. Thursday’s evening event will be a film screening followed by a discussion on the Haitian maternal healthcare system, exposing some of the barriers to care.

The Institute for Human Rights (IHR) at UAB is hiring undergraduate interns for both our Human Rights Lab Internship (HRT Lab) and our Birmingham Immersive Community Empowerment Program (BICEP) internship.

The HRT Lab internship offers students training and opportunities to publish peer reviewed blogs on human rights topics on our IHR Blog page. We are looking to fill multiple positions for this internship. If you are a good writer, this one is for you!

The BICEP internship offers students the opportunity to work closely with one of the twenty participating community organizations of their choice. We are looking for one intern for each of the 20 sites, and these organizations work to promote various types of human rights across Birmingham. If you are interested in community engagement or service work, this internship is right up your alley!

Both internship opportunities are PAID! Interested students should scan the QR code or visit our website to learn more. Apply today to become part of the IHR Team!

It has been four years since Russia launched a full scale invasion on Ukraine, and the conflict is still ongoing. What’s happened since then? How are the citizens impacted? What peace efforts have been made? How is this shaping the larger region, and geopolitics overall? Join the conversation to hear more from scholars who have researched this conflict extensively and hear from one of the speakers who has been back to Ukraine in the past four years.

What does the constitution 📜 say about free speech 📣and peaceful assembly and how are these rights protected and promoted in the legal framework ? Join us for a chance to hear from someone who is witnessing this first hand in Minnesota.

Please note the change in time 🕰️ for this event (held at 12-1 PM central instead of the usual 4-5 time slot). Invite your friends, your family and even your neighbors to join us on zoom!