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 A generous gift from the Friends of Stanford University Foundation in Taiwan enables the Stanford Global Studies Division to award “Global Perspectives” grants to help fund SGS graduate student research each summer. The following students…

Former UN Ambassador for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, meets SGS students Joy Scott, Faizaa Fatima, and Julian Bava.

Stanford Global Studies (SGS), in partnership with the WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, presented its inaugural SGS Student Dinner featuring Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.  Approximately 80…

Navi Pillay speaks at Stanford

Jessie Brunner, WSD Handa Center

Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay gave the inaugural HANDA Center Lecture on Human Rights Tuesday night in Cemex Auditorium. Pillay reflected on her time as High Commissioner and discussed current human rights conflicts…
Stanford researcher imagines a world without large, plant-eating animals Stanford biologist Rodolfo Dirzo (Director of the Center for Latin American Studies) and a team of ecologists forecast enormous ecological, social and economic costs from the…

Sabrina Papazian, Diana Muradova, Alina Utrata (not pictured Anna Blue)

Mark R. Rapacz

Four Stanford Students to Travel to Istanbul, Turkey April 24, 2015 will mark the 100-year anniversary of the concerted Ottoman campaign that resulted in the deaths and exile of the vast majority of Ottoman Armenians. Stanford Global Studies (SGS)…