Oak Institute For the Study of International Human Rights

The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights, established in 1998, annually brings to campus a prominent human rights practitioner. While in residence the Oak Human Rights Fellow teaches, pursues research, and organizes lectures and other events centered around his or her area of expertise. The 2006 Oak Human Rights Fellow is Joan Carling of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance; she will be in residence during the fall semester. Carling has been an activist and grassroots organizer in the Cordillera region of the Philippines for 20 years and is one of the foremost advocates working on rights of indigenous peoples, campaigning against dam and mining projects that are destructive of indigenous peoples' communities in the Philippines. For 2007 the Oak Institute will solicit nominations and will select a fellow working in Latin America.