About the Center
The Center for Human Rights of the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at San Diego State University (SDSU) supports and promotes human rights research and education at SDSU, as well as opportunities for engagement with human rights organizations in San Diego County and in the San Diego-Tijuana binational area and beyond.
The center offers a Certificate in Human Rights that is open to all majors. It seeks to expand the understanding of human rights in a range of evolving social and regional contexts through a meaningful course of study. The films and speaker series organized by the center enrich students’ educational experience and awareness of pressing human rights issues that we face locally, nationally, and globally.
Apply to participate in the first Human Rights Education Workshop
The Center for Human Rights at San Diego State University, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, and Alliance San Diego are pleased to announce the first Human Rights Education Workshop for Secondary School Teachers.
The workshop is inspired by the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. Its purpose is to support education that promotes values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage the next generation to uphold their own rights and those of others.
At the workshop, we will cover various topics in human rights and support teachers in developing their curricular projects. Its aim is to foster dialogue among educators and to create a network of teachers for collaboration, curriculum development, and instruction for authentic student learning.
The workshop will consist of five in-person meetings spread throughout the 2025-2026 academic year, with Zoom check-ins in between (the in-person meetings will be held on Saturdays at SDSU).
Teachers completing the workshop will receive a $300 stipend and a certificate of participation.
Deadline to apply: June 30, 2025.
We invite teachers in San Diego County to apply to participate in this workshop.
Direct questions to: cal.humanrights@sdsu.edu.
Sarah Davisson reflects on her internship with a human rights organization in Indonesia
An invaluable international experience, Davisson finds her place among the multicultural Southeast Asian academic hub for religion-based discrimination.
Center Makes Internships Possible for Students
With support from the San Diego Peacemakers Fund, students assist refugees, migrants, human trafficking victims, and work for other social justice causes.
Read the internship story on the CAL website.
Apply for an award for participating in an unpaid human rights internship.
Student Testimonies
Students share their insights on how the Interdisciplinary Human Rights Certificate Program inspires forward thinking.
SDSU Library Collection on Human Rights
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