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Editor’s note: From a change in automotive topography to Bibles and pornography, these are among our favorite quotes from the past several days.
A digital archive featuring millions of images and documents from the National Police of Guatemala could help people searching for family and friends who have disappeared, said Karen Engle, law professor and co-director and founder of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.
Only 23 percent of sexually active students at UT use condoms regularly, said Guli Fager, health education coordinator for University Health Services at the fifth annual World AIDS day conference at UT.
It is a nation’s duty to record the truth through archives and to overcome the challenges of assembling those archives, said John Ciorciari, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.
Ciorciari lectured Monday as part of a series on human rights sponsored by the Rapoport Center in the School of Law.
Art and human rights converged Monday night at a film screening featuring Chilean political prisoners of the Pinochet dictatorship who looked to the stars as a way to preserve their inner freedom.
The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice sponsored the event. The center is an interdisciplinary organization that aims to encourage dialogue and scholarship at the intersection of activism and advocacy.
Local feminist groups filtered transnational sex trafficking through an economic lens at a Tuesday lecture, providing local, national and global frameworks for the issue.
The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Rapoport Center Research Cluster on Women, Gender, and Human Rights hosted the lecture. The organizations invited Jennifer Suchland, assistant professor of Slavic studies and women’s studies at the Ohio State University, citing her knowledge of the sex trafficking industry.
Students at UT Austin can help fight AIDS and support those suffering globally, said a representative from Face AIDS in the Union on Wednesday.
UT’s Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice hosted UT’s fourth annual World AIDS Day Conference, which included multiple panels to discuss the AIDS pandemic in terms of policy, activism and global health. In the same building, the CARE Program and Face AIDS hosted free HIV testing.
