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The Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC) is the intellectual home to university-wide scholarly initiatives that bring together faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences with public policy and law. A joint constituent center of the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, DHRC promotes new understandings of human rights by leading interdisciplinary conversations and programming that actively engage local, national and international human rights practitioners, policymakers and scholars.
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2012 Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize Winners
The Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize recognizes the innovative work being done on human rights by students. This year’s winners are Samantha Tropper (T’13), whose “Laïcité, the Republic, and the Veil” examines the human rights implications of a ban on head scarves in France, and Patrick Oathout (T’14), who developed a mobile phone application that would make it easier for refugees and aid workers to post and obtain up-to-date information about food distribution points, the weather, dangerous events, family and friends, and health care. The prize was established by Professor Claudia Koonz, a founding member of the DHRC, in honor of her father, both of whom are pictured above. More information is available here.
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