Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Human Rights Practice

Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Human Rights Practice MA and grad certificates in Human Rights Practice, plus an undergrad minor. Classes every 7.5 weeks.

Creating networks of trained human rights professionals with real-world skills using problem based learning and guest lecturers. Welcome to The Human Rights Practice Program at the University of Arizona

We feature a wholly online BA degree, a wholly online MA degree and 4 graduate certificates in Human Rights Practice. These are professionally oriented programs designed to provide participants wi

th the foundational knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical skills to advance human rights around the globe. Our four graduate certificates include:

Human Rights Practice (12 Credits)
Human Rights and Documentary Media (18 Credits)
Human Rights and Technology (15 Credits)
Gender-Based Violence (15 Credits)

Students in each program will graduate with a portfolio of applied work, a large network of contacts, and marketable skills for the practice and application of human rights. They will help produce white papers, webinars, shadow reports, and other forms of human rights work. For more information about the graduate programs, please contact Dr. Mette Brogden ([email protected]). For more information about the new BA program, please contact Dr. Raymond Smith ([email protected]).

Prof. Mette Brogden has received the 2026 Distinguished Faculty Outreach Award from the College of Social and Behavioral...
05/27/2026

Prof. Mette Brogden has received the 2026 Distinguished Faculty Outreach Award from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) at the University of Arizona. An anthropologist, Dr. Brogden is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Human Rights Practice Program in the School of Global Studies.

Congratulations to Mette on this important recognition of her work in Ghana, Estonia, and beyond!

To read more about the award and about Mette's projects, please visit: https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/congratulations-mette-brogden-distinguished-faculty-outreach-award

Congratulations to Prof. William Simmons, who is the recipient of the 2025 Human Rights and Higher Education Award, pres...
05/17/2026

Congratulations to Prof. William Simmons, who is the recipient of the 2025 Human Rights and Higher Education Award, presented by the University and College Consortium on Human Rights Education (UCCHRE). Bill is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies in the School of Global Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, where he was also the founder and the first director of the Human Rights Practice Program.

As the first international award in human rights education, the Human Rights and Higher Education Award recognizes outstanding contributions to human rights education by an individual, group, program, journal, or organization through work that embodies a commitment to human rights principles and rights-based practices.

To read more, please visit:

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/prof-bill-simmons-receives-human-rights-and-higher-education-award

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/asafar-remedy-our-own-words
04/30/2026

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/asafar-remedy-our-own-words

Asafar: A Remedy in Our Own Words March 25, 2026 Image Warda pouring Moroccan mint tea during a food tour in Marrakech, Morocco. Warda Belkass holds a Master of Arts in Human Rights Practice from the University of Arizona and a Master's degree in Linguistics from Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech,....

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/inside-look-human-rights-russia
04/30/2026

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/inside-look-human-rights-russia

An Inside Look at Human Rights in Russia March 11, 2026 Evgeniy Karyakin Image Credit: Aleksandr Isaev / Unsplash Evgeniy Karyakin, an MA student in Human Rights Practice, is a lawyer and human rights defender based in Moscow. This article was originally published on Open Global Rights on March 10,....

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/protecting-right-education-myanmar
02/12/2026

https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/protecting-right-education-myanmar

Protecting the Right to Education in Myanmar Feb. 1, 2026 Image Aung Naing Tun is a protection professional and individual freelance consultant from Myanmar with extensive skills and expertise on protection programming and in the humanitarian context of Myanmar. He graduated with MA in Human Rights....

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