Projects
One Community, One Book
Launched in 2001 by UICHR founders, One Community, One Book is an annual countywide reading project.
Protecting Rights of Detained Immigrants & Asylum Seekers
This new UICHR initiative will educate students and community members about the status of detained immigrants in Iowa, detention standards and issues; facilitate advocacy and research on immigration and detention policy and undertake data collection; provide resources for networking and coalition-building; and assist legal-service providers in informing detainees about their legal rights and remedies.
Climate Legacy Initiative
The Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI) is a collaborative project of Vermont Law School (VLS) Environmental Law Center and The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR). Burns H. Weston, UICHR's founding Director and Senior Scholar, served as the CLI's Project Director and Senior Researcher.
The Climate Legacy Initiative's overall purpose is to research and promote legal doctrines, principles, and rules appropriate for recognition by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and private sector institutions to safeguard present and future generations from harms resulting from global climate change. It takes as a given that climate change exists and confirms that lawyers have a vital role to play in both public and private discourse and action relative to it.
Based on the two meetings of the Distinguished Advisors Panel in Vermont last fall, Burns Weston and Tracy Bach completed extensive revisions of the CLI Policy Paper, now titled Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice.
Read the University of Iowa news release about the Climate Legacy Initiative and related events here.
UICHR Human Rights Index
The Human Rights Index, a continuing series, is prepared by the UI Center for Human Rights (UICHR) for publication in The Iowa Review three times annually.
Child Labor Project
The UICHR, to expose and understand this dire global issue, undertook its Child Labor Research Initiative (CLRI) between 2001 and 2004. Among its major accomplishments were a series of teaching modules on child labor for primary and secondary school and a major database of child labor laws in 31 countries around the world.