MacArthur Foundation awards $1 million to Berkeley Law Human Rights Center
The MacArthur Foundation has recognized the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law for its investigations and research on war crimes and human rights abuses with a 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
The UC Berkeley Human Rights Center is one of nine nonprofit organizations worldwide receiving the award, announced on February 5. The award comes with $1 million, which the center will use to establish an endowment and to expand its sexual violence program. The MacArthur Foundation, known for its “genius awards” to exceptional individuals, also honors extraordinary organizations that tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems.
In honoring the Human Rights Center, the foundation cited decades of work on war crimes and abuses in more than a dozen countries, spotlighting recent research on wartime sexual violence.
Researchers at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center discuss their efforts to investigate war crimes and other serious violations of human rights. (Video courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)
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