Welcome to the Center for Universal Justice and Dignity. We all say “U-J-D” around here.

Your applications are impressive and we were drawn by your research abilities and your passion for human rights. You have been carefully screened and selected for your potential to become reliable investigators and reporters. Despite your gifts as researchers, your permanent employment by the Center will depend on your success in completing a rigorous training program.

The trial program requires that you complete in-house training plus three expeditions to investigate and report on human rights abuses in various parts of the world. Your hands-on training will provide several tools that we have identified as necessary components of reliable and effective human rights investigation. These skills are useful for human rights educational, legislative, and judicial bodies around the world and demand a high level of commitment to investigative accuracy and integrity.

Although the Center has received criticism for its investigation and analysis
of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay by U.S. military and intelligence personnel, we strive to avoid partisanship by focusing on the facts. In spite of heavy criticism from extreme ideologues, we have been nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Governments, international courts, business interests, and educational organizations around the world respect our work because our information and analysis are regarded as always reliable and useful for policy decisions.

After you complete the training program, you will be assigned to an investigative group to conduct a thorough analysis of a human rights issue that needs to be addressed immediately by the international community and the governmental jurisdictions in the areas of concern. The investigative assignment could involve international travel and might be dangerous, depending on the nature of the conflicts and problems in any given region. Group members are assigned on the basis of special skills that enhance effective collaborative investigation and reporting.

Part 1: What are human rights and why do we need them?

Part 2: Historic Human Rights Documents: The Bill of Rights, Constitution of the United State

Part 3: Historic Human Rights Documents: Declaration of the Rights of Man, French Constitution

Part 4: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Part 5: International Courts that deal with human rights cases

Part 6: Human Rights around the world

Part 7: How to Be a Human Rights Investigator and Reporter

Part 8: Writing Reports for the Center

Part 9: Is this a Human Rights Violation?