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The International Human Rights certificate (IHRC) is a cross-disciplinary program examining historical and contemporary challenges in safeguarding human dignity. Treating human rights as a global issue with local impacts, the IHRC encourages analytical thinking about rights issues while equipping students for possible careers in human rights work. The program's coursework particularly emphasizes post-WWII developments in international standards, legal frameworks, organizations, political systems, and activist campaigns addressing concerns like mass atrocities, economic deprivation, abusive practices, discrimination, displaced populations, voting restrictions, exploitative work conditions, identity-based persecution, modern slavery, and other severe human rights abuses.