Mission Statement
Housed in the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, the Lab’s social justice mission is to track and monitor ongoing humanitarian, environmental and socio-political crises throughout the Americas by using open source investigative methods to achieve accountability for communities adversely affected by human rights violations and to promote justice. Learn more.
HRI Lab News
- January 8, 2021Two UC Santa Cruz programs win funding for public interest technology
- January 15, 2021Award Recipient of the UC MRPI
- January 6, 2021UC Santa Cruz Human Rights Lab investigates social unrest in Chile
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