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Education

Feb. 7, 2015

Berkeley Law's Human Rights Center honored with $1M award

The issue of how to protect refugees from sexual abuse is now being addressed, thanks to work in the field by members of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley.


By Deirdre Newman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Refugee camps typically provide safe harbor from victims of conflict in war-torn countries. But within these camps often lurks another kind of danger, especially for women: sexual abuse. The issue of how to protect refugees from this kind of violence is now being addressed, thanks to work in the field by members of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law.


The center's groundbreaking...

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