Due to domestic and world events, human rights has become a vital focus for academic research across disciplines. This workshop responds to a growing need to examine and discuss human rights and to present research and discussion on relevant contemporary human rights issues. The Human Rights Workshop crosscuts all academic disciplines and helps the campus community to engage in the examination of issues of moral and political significance. The 2009-10 Human Rights Workshop will be organized along thematic lines, in cooperation with faculty sponsors: Autumn, human security; Winter, global justice/local justices; Spring, the practice of human rights.