Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

The mission of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy. It aims to train human rights practitioners to think and act more strategically and to draw on the best social science research to create human rights solutions, through faculty whose expertise focuses on the most dangerous and intractable human rights challenges of the 21st century. Programs that have explored aspects of global health include the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Initiative, and the Violence Against Women Initiative.