Originally Posted: December 1, 2015
Congratulations to Rick Halperin, Director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program
Dr. Halperin will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his Human Rights work at the Annual Peace & Justice Maker Awards Dinner on Thursday, December 3.
Dr. Rick Halperin has spent his entire life defending and advocating the idea that there is no such thing as a lesser person, and that all persons, regardless of whatever they have done, still have and remain worthy of their inherent dignity and must not, for any reason, be tortured or be put to death. Rick began teaching human rights courses in 1990, and serves as the Director of the Southern Methodist University Embrey Human Rights Program. During his more than 40-year affiliation with Amnesty International USA, Rick served as chair of its board of directors three times. He has also served on the boards of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the Center for Survivors of Torture, the International Rescue Committee and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
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