Help Us Create a Better World
Webster University’s Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies combines support for teaching, research, and service to promote global citizenship among its students, staff, and alumni. With the University’s international footprint, we’re advancing the study of human rights issues, as well as advocacy for the protection and promotion of fundamental rights.
Explore below to learn more about how the Institute serves as a leading center for human rights education and join us in our mission of spurring positive and permanent change.
Additional Human Rights Resources
While our web site undergoes reconstruction, we invite you to access more resources and archives at our legacy site.
Help Change Our Community and Beyond
As a student-centered university, we provide our learning community many opportunities to engage in the world around them. Our department publishes Righting Wrongs: A Journal of Human Rights, a peer-reviewed academic journal. Contributors use this space to explore human rights issues, challenge current actions and frameworks, and engage in problem-solving to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
Explore Our Premier Programs
Discover more about our relevant and hands-on curriculum across a variety of fields and disciplines.