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The Human Rights Summit at The Dodd Center for Human Rights brings together scholars, students, activists, policymakers, artists, and business leaders from across the world to examine the key human rights challenges of our time and generate new ideas to promote social justice and human dignity globally.

Through a mix of high-profile lectures, practical workshops, and roundtable discussions, the Human Rights Summit will serve as a critical venue for sharing insights, building relationships, and inspiring action.

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Announcing the 2025 Dodd Human Rights Summit: Sport & Human Rights

The Summit will feature an opening conversation with 1968 Olympic podium protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, moderated by journalist Bill Rhoden.

Memories of the Past, to Support the Future: UConn Presents 2023 Dodd Prize with Sweeping Conversation about Global Democracy

‘This year’s recipient of the Dodd Prize embodies the understanding that human rights are a cause that cannot be limited to individual countries’

An exterior view of The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Inaugural Human Rights Summit Comes to The Dodd Center with Critical Focus on Global Assault on Democracy

UConn community and leaders, activists, academics, artists, policymakers, and students from across the country and around the world will come together in Storrs to place critical focus on human rights at the inaugural Human Rights Summit at The Dodd Center

Human Rights Summit

Human Rights and the Global Assault on Democracy

Sport and Human Rights

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