UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights and UConn-ANC Partnership Annual Report

Year in Review: Activities and Events
May 2003 – May 2004

Prepared by Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu, D. Phil. (Oxon.)
UNESCO Chair-holder in Comparative Human Rights

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

During the academic year 2003/4, apart from teaching history 226, continuing to supervise a Ph.D. student (Onek Adyanga) and successfully served as advisor to an MA student (Timothy Symth) and three independent studies stuidents, Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu has been very busy with the work of the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights and the UConn-ANC Partnership Office. Over the year, he has engaged in and hosted a wide range of activities that have served to expand and consolidate alliances and collaboration with various institutions of higher education and human rights organizations. Most of these activities were covered by local, state, national, and international media, bringing publicity and recognition and promoting an aura of cosmopolitanism and dynamic diversity for the University of Connecticut. During the same period, the UNESCO Chair conducted a number of outreach activities with a view to raising consciousness and creating a critical mass for human rights. The activities fall in the following broad categories:

• Annual Comparative Human Rights Conference that took place in October 2003.
  
• Establishment of UNESCO Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in New England in March 2004.
  
• Outreach speaking engagements by the Executive Director, Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu, within the state, outside the state, and outside the country; and on national and international radio stations.
  
• Joint and collaborative sponsorships of conferences on human rights, notably with the Richmond Law School in March 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; and with the Institute for African American Studies in November 2003 on the Black Power Movement in Historical Perspective.
  
• UNESCO Comparative Human Rights Lecture Series by distinguished human rights educators and advocates.
  
• The outreach and teach-ins by Student Ambassadors for Human Rights.

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