Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH)

What Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH) does

Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH) is a research center embedded within the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Chile, founded in 2002 and headquartered on the 4th floor of the Faculty of Law at Pío Nono #1 in Santiago. The center's mission is the production and dissemination of human rights research, education, and policy engagement, organized around six thematic research lines: gender-based violence, child studies, indigenous peoples, migrations, international human rights law, and social criminal policy. Its work targets the Chilean legal and academic community, public institutions, civil society organizations, and visiting international scholars and students.

CDH's core "products" are academic in nature rather than commercial: peer-reviewed research, diploma programs, continuing-education courses, international exchange channels for visiting students, and publications. Its international engagement is anchored by formal partnerships with the Yale Law School Linkage Program, the Scholars at Risk Network, and the Universidad Libre de Colombia via the SUI IURIS initiative. The center draws on the senior academic strength of the parent Faculty of Law, which includes 46 Profesor Titular and two National Prize recipients among its faculty.

The operating model is that of a publicly funded university research center rather than a commercial entity. CDH does not disclose revenue, pricing, or commercial contracts, and its financial sustenance is presumed to flow from the Universidad de Chile's institutional budget, competitive research grants, and partner-funded programs. Because it is structurally non-commercial, traditional PE/VC metrics — ARR, growth rate, churn, margin — do not apply directly, and any investment thesis must be framed around academic impact, partnership leverage, and reputational positioning rather than financial return.

Name

Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH)

Legal name

Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH) - Universidad de Chile

Website

https://derecho.uchile.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH) is a non-commercial research center within the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Chile, conducting human rights scholarship, diplomas, and international academic exchange across six thematic research lines.

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Product category

Academic Research Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Law & Legal Studies Research Universities (EDAHABAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Research Universities with Multi-Campus Systems (EDAHAAAI), Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK), Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

Keywords

• Human rights research
• Legal scholarship
• Academic research center
• Human rights education
• Gender violence studies

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago, Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Centro de Derechos Humanos is an academic research center within the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile that conducts scholarly research on human rights, with a focus on gender-based violence against women, child studies, and human rights education. The center offers non-remunerated research internships to international exchange students, coordinates human rights diploma programs, and participates in the international Scholars at Risk network supporting persecuted academics. It operates as one of five research centers within the Faculty of Law and functions through the university's academic infrastructure without commercial revenue.

Product overview

Centro de Derechos Humanos (CDH) is a research center within the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile. It functions as an academic research unit offering non-remunerated internships to exchange students in areas including gender-based violence research, childhood studies, human rights diploma coordination, and participation in the Scholars at Risk international network. The center collaborates on ongoing research projects led by faculty professors and provides students with opportunities to assist in research, organize academic activities, and develop monographic works.

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Products and services

• Research Internship in Gender and Violence Against Women Non-remunerated research internship for international exchange students focusing on gender-based violence against women, supervised by professors Myrna Villegas and Lavinia Francesconi at the Centro de Derechos Humanos. Interns assist in ongoing research projects and contribute to monographic works in the gender violence research line.
• Research Internship in Childhood Studies Non-remunerated research internship for international exchange students focused on child studies, conducted within the 'Anillos en Ciencias Sociales' project led by Professor Liliana Galdámez at the Centro de Derechos Humanos. Interns support the project's child rights research activities.
• Human Rights Diplomas Program Professional diploma programs in human rights coordinated by the Centro de Derechos Humanos at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, providing postgraduate-level specialized training in human rights law for students and professionals.
• Scholars at Risk Collaboration Collaboration with the international Scholars at Risk network, a program that promotes academic freedom and supports scholars facing persecution worldwide. CDH participates in research collaboration and advocacy for endangered academics through this partnership.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Various Foreign UniversitiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Faculty of Law maintains multiple collaboration agreements with foreign universities to enable academic exchanges, joint research, and international cooperation. The Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales coordinates these partnerships to provide students with international academic experiences.
• Yale Law SchoolflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Linkage Program between the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Chile and Yale Law School promotes understanding of legal systems and democratic values between Latin America and the United States. Students from Chile and other Latin American institutions travel to Yale for three weeks to attend classes and participate in specially designed activities.
• SUI IURIS Network UniversitiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SUI IURIS Association of Ibero-American Law Schools facilitates student mobility between member institutions. The Faculty participates in this network enabling exchanges with universities across Latin America, Spain, and Portugal including Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, FGV São Paulo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ITAM, UNAM, and 20+ other institutions.
• Scholars at Risk NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCDH collaborates with the Scholars at Risk Project, an international network that promotes academic freedom and supports scholars facing persecution. This partnership provides opportunities for research collaboration and advocacy for endangered academics.

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Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ): International NGO working on transitional justice, accountability, and human rights; thematically adjacent rather than directly competitive, but engages the same Latin American academic and policy networks that CDH operates within.

Broad incumbents

• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR): Principal regional human-rights body for the Americas; not a direct peer, but a broader incumbent whose work, research agenda, and country-report focus intersect with CDH's scholarship and the Scholars at Risk network it participates in.
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) Americas Division: Major international human-rights NGO with significant Latin America coverage; broader incumbent operating at global scale but addressing overlapping themes (gender violence, child rights, academic freedom) that CDH researches.
• Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School: A larger, well-established human rights research and policy center at a globally elite university; broader scope and resources than CDH but operating on the same model of university-anchored human-rights research and convening.
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): United Nations body leading global human-rights work; a broad incumbent whose mandates, reports, and country engagement shape the demand environment in which CDH operates and produces scholarship.

Direct peers

• Centro de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile): Chilean university-affiliated human rights center; the most direct local peer to CDH, competing for talent, visibility, and partnerships in the same Chilean higher-education and human-rights ecosystem.
• Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School: A leading university-based human rights research and education center; directly comparable to CDH in mission, structure, and integration within a law faculty, with similar focus on research, training, and international collaboration.
• Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law: Human rights research center within NYU Law; directly comparable to CDH as a university-based human-rights research hub offering research opportunities, scholarly outputs, and partnerships with international advocacy networks.
• Instituto de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia: Latin American university-based human rights research institute; directly comparable to CDH as a regional academic hub for human-rights scholarship and postgraduate training.

Emerging players

• Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham: A European university-based human-rights research center; comparable to CDH in scope and academic anchoring, though more focused on European and international law contexts.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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