AUSJAL Partnership

The University Network announces a major partnership with thirty leading universities in mexico and central and south america

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The University Network for Human Rights is proud to announce its new partnership with thirty universities across Latin America through the Asociación de Universidades Confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina (AUSJAL). AUSJAL brings together Jesuit universities in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The partnership is a major development for human rights clinical education in the Americas.

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The Asociación de Universidades Confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina is a leading network of Jesuit universities. Building on the longstanding Jesuit tradition of social justice and academic excellence, AUSJAL unites leading research and teaching centers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Domincan Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Through the agreement, the University Network will work with individual universities to develop and strengthen interdisciplinary clinics in human rights advocacy. Clinics will train students to work with and advance the agendas of communities facing rights abuse. This partnership will strengthen AUSJAL’s commitment to social justice, human rights, community engagement, and interdisciplinary clinical teaching and praxis.

The following preeminent institutions of higher education are part of the AUSJAL network: 

  • Universidad Católica de Córdoba (UCC), Córdoba, Argentina, 

  • Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP), Recife, Brazil

  • Centro Universitário FEI, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

  • Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia (FAJE), Belo Horizonte, Brazi

  • Instituto Especializado de Estudios Superiores Loyola (IESSL), San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic

  • Instituto Filosófico Pedro Francisco Bonó (IFPFB), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  • Instituto Superior de Estudios Humanísticos y Filosóficos (ISEHF), Asuncion, Paraguay

  • Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuuk (ISIA), Oaxaca, Mexico

  • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Guadalajara, Mexico

  • Instituto Universitario Jesús Obrero (IUJO), Caracas, Venezuela

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

  • Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

  • Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Cali, Colombia

  • Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Tecnológico Universitario del Valle de Chalco (TUVCH), Estado de México, Mexico

  • Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH), Santiago, Chile

  • Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (UARM), Lima, Peru

  • Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas, Venezuela

  • Universidad Católica del Táchira (UCAT), San Cristóbal, Venezuela

  • Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU), Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Universidad Centroamericana UCA, Managua, Nicaragua

  • Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas", San Salvador, El Salvado

  • Universidad del Pacífico (UP), Lima, Peru

  • Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, México City, Mexico

  • Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico

  • Universidad Iberoamericana Torreón, Torreón, Mexico 

  • Universidad Iberoamericana León, León, Mexico

  • Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

  • Universidad Rafael Landívar (URL), Guatemala

  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Sao Leopoldo, Brazil