Texas Hillel's White Rose Society and the University of Texas Division of Diversity and Community Engagement are proud to present the second annual symposium on human rights, diversity and genocide issues entitled: Apathy or Action: The Struggle for Human Rights with a special thanks to our lead supporter Whole Foods Market. This symposium of events will offer the University of Texas and the greater community an opportunity to further their understanding of human rights catastrophes and what can be done to ensure such disasters can be prevented.

The symposium begins Thursday April 3rd with the annual passing out of the 10,000 white roses on UT campus to honor the memory of those who were killed during the Holocaust. The events start on Monday April 7th the events will continue through April 10th with our keynote speaker, John Prendergast, a former President Clinton advisor and long time Africa expert and activist. For more information on the week of events visit the events page. To volunteer to help with the rose preparation, distribution or with any of the other events, please visit our volunteer page.

As the theme suggests, the symposium will not only inform the participants, but aims to empower participants to chose action over apathy, interaction over separation, intervention over isolation and dialogue over silence. This page and other pages on this site will be constantly updated to provide interested participants with the information necessary to get involved with the week of events and the ongoing human rights struggle.