Special Opportunities

Macalester regularly sponsors student internships in human rights and humanitarian organizations, including the Center for Victims of Torture and Advocates for Human Rights. The College also holds a number of events and discussions each year related to human rights and humanitarianism. Recent guest speakers have included:

• Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Bill Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA
• Aid workers from Doctors without Borders
• Jan Egeland, United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
• Novelists from “The Duty of Memory,” a Panafrican project commemorating the Rwandan genocide
• Michael Ignatieff, former director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University and now a Member of Parliament in Canada

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