The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice was created in 2004, thanks to a generous gift by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation. The Rapoport Center is committed to interdisciplinarity. Lawyers and law students work side by side with scholars and practitioners across disciplines that include anthropology, sociology, government, literature, fine arts, and public policy. The Center’s motto is “Partners for Change at the Intersection of Academics and Advocacy,” representing its unique position as an academic center that not only works across disciplines, but also collaborates with communities outside the academy with the aim of producing innovative and enduring change in the lives of marginalized individuals and groups.
The Rapoport Center has, over the years, developed a number of exhibitions of archives of human rights lawyers and activists. In addition to the websites below, the Rapoport Center was instrumental in securing, developing, and promoting the Digital Archive of the Guatemala National Police Historical Archive.
