Amherst Human Rights Commission

Join the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for National Day of Racial Healing. Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 6:00 pm at Crocker Farm Elementary School, 280 West Street, Amherst.

Join the Amherst Human Rights Commission and the Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion for a community Reading of "The Quest for Peace and Justice" Monday, January 15, 2024, 1:00 pm at the Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst.

Join us on Sunday, September 28th for live music, salsa lessons, great food, and community.

This year marks the 108th year of the first genocide of the 20th century.

Amherst Media will be re-broadcasting the Town of Amherst's 100th Commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a Town sanctioned event that Adrienne Terrizzi organized and was co-sponsored by the HRC on the North Common in April 2015.

Amherst Media will be airing the film from its archives this Friday, April 7, 10:30 am on Channel 12.

Join the Human Rights Commission Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 4:30 pm on the North Common for the annual community reading of the Declaration of Human Rights and the 2022 Human Rights Proclamation read by Town Council. Followed by community and hot cocoa.

Candles and hot cocoa provided!