Today at noon the internationally renowned Physicians for Human Rights, the 2017 winner of UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, will visit UConn Health for a special forum in Massey Auditorium.
All are welcome to attend the discussion with PHR leaders about the critical ongoing global fight for human rights and the greater role health professionals can play.
In attendance will be UConn School of Medicine’s student PHR chapter. Learn how our students are “Following in the Footsteps of Physicians for Human Rights” by launching a new Asylum Clinic this fall.
Since 1986, Physicians for Human Rights has used medicine and science to document and prevent mass atrocities and severe human rights violations around the world against the most vulnerable populations.
Yesterday the international human rights organization received the Dodd Prize at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center’s Konover Auditorium from The Honorable Christopher J. Dodd and UConn President Susan Herbst.
More About The Thomas J. Dodd Prize
The University of Connecticut awards the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights biennially to an individual or group who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of international justice and global human rights. The Prize commemorates the distinguished public service career of Thomas J. Dodd, who served as Executive Trial Counsel at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, as U.S. Representative from 1953 to 1957 and as Connecticut’s Senator from 1959 to 1971. Thomas Dodd dedicated his entire public life to fighting against the violation and suppression of human rights in the United States and abroad. The Dodd Prize is made possible through the generous support of philanthropist and businessman John W. Kluge (1914-2010). Mr. Kluge was among the first contributors to the Dodd Center capital campaign and the endowment of his fund allows for the biennial awarding of the Dodd Prize.
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