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Student Leadership Initiative

The mission of the Embrey Human Rights Program’s Student Leadership Initiative (SLI) is to give exceptionally-motivated students the opportunity to address human rights abuses by managing long-term service learning projects through academic study and activism.

The Student Leadership Initiative (SLI) was created in the summer of 2010 as a way for students in the Embrey Human Rights Program and other socially-conscious SMU student leaders to be involved in human rights research and service-learning projects in regions of global interest. As a student-led initiative, SLI is focused in providing interesting and engaging opportunities to the SMU student body while perpetuating universal human rights and enriching the educational quality of SMU. Through participation in SLI, we hope to equip future leaders with the skills to understand global and local human rights violations and to empower these students to inspire and affect sustainable global change through human rights service.

SLI’s inaugural project, the U.S.-Mexico Border Project, will be focused on migration issues in the region of national and international interest. In January 2011, SLI will send twelve SMU student leaders to investigate human rights issues of personal interest while providing real change through service.

SLI is currently looking for SMU student leaders who are passionate towards human rights service and motivated to affect real change in the SMU and global community to join SLI, apply for leadership positions, and apply to join us in our inaugural project.

For further information about SLI and our U.S.-Mexico Border Project, please contact Jordan Johansen at jjohansen@smu.edu or (214) 236-1923.

Travel

Australia:
August 1-14, 2013

Poland Trip:
December 16-30, 2013

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Students Taking a Stand

Nicola Muchnikoff
Class of 2010

Richardson, Texas
Major: Political Science
Minor: Human Rights
Current Position: Teach For America Teacher, 2nd grade

“Education is now and has always been the surest way to end a family’s cycle of poverty. My elementary students have so very little -- but I do not believe that this should mean they have less opportunity than their more affluent cohorts...” More »

HRW.org Headlines

Israel: Strengthen White Phosphorus Phase-Out
Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:59 +0000

Burma: New Doubts About Pace of Reforms
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

China: Revise Disability Regulations for Education
Sat, 18 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Thailand: Deliver Justice for 2010 Political Violence
Fri, 17 May 2013 23:52:19 +0000

Argentina: On the Death of Jorge Rafael Videla
Fri, 17 May 2013 16:32:50 +0000