The Center for Social Justice is an initiative of the Women's and Gender Studies Program to promote gender justice, equality, and human rights through local and global engagement.


Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice

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Is the American Dream Just? Social Justice Film Festival

The Clyde Snow Social Justice Award

The Center for Social Justice is thrilled and honored to be working with members of our community to create the Clyde Snow Social Justice Award.

Dr. Snow’s work has impacted international courts, academia, forensic anthropologists, human rights organizations and activists, and families, friends, and communities of victims.  It is time for us to recognize his exceptional work in the field of human rights and social justice. Click here to read more.

We would greatly appreciate your financial assistance to help raise US$150,000 to create a permanent endowment.  This year’s award will recognize the extraordinary work of Dr. Clyde Snow.  In following years, the Center for Social Justice can use the Clyde Snow Social Justice Award to honor other individuals and organizations whose work contributes to the re-humanization of victims of human rights abuses.

Your tax-deductible contribution should be made payable to the Clyde Snow Award Fund of the University of Oklahoma Foundation. Click here to donate now.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at the Center for Social Justice!

 

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Spotlight on Events

Lauren Zuinga

Spring Activist-in-Residence

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Action Alerts

As found in a study by the Department of Justice:

  •   1 in 3 Native women will be raped during their lifetime 
  •   Native American are 2.5 times as likely to experience sexual assault than other races
  • “To make matters worse, four out of five perpetrators of these crimes against Native women are non-Indian, and cannot be prosecuted by tribal governments” (Chairman Akaka)

    On October 31, 2011 the SAVE Native Women Act was introduced to the US Senate.  This bill will provide Indian Country with jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes on Indian lands.

    TAKE ACTION: Call OR Write your Senator’s and State Rep’s and tell them to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. For more information, visit: http://www.indianlaw.org