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2022 Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy, 19 May-11 June 2022, NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS
Friday, October 8, 2021
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race are glad to inform you that we are now accepting applications for the 2022 International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy (ISSP). This program also enjoys the cooperation of the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of British Columbia (Canada).
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021: What can Columbia do better?
by Elsa Stamatopoulou*
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

We are very glad that Columbia now celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The University has followed the appeal of Native American students and numerous other students, faculty and staff over the years asking for this Day to be honored. The celebration of the Day is a clear trend among various other universities as well as cities and states in this country.

History of the Day

Advocate Highlight
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

2016 HRAP participant, Samuel Matsikure, was interviewed by Bustop.tv about his work as the program manager at Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a leading local LGBTQI organisation.“Coming from a very conservative society, to be where I am right now meant that I had to take bold decisions.

Alumni Highlight
Monday, October 4, 2021
Alum Trisha Mukherjee, CC '21, co-created the podcast People • Place • Power with Benjamin Swift (Colorado College).
2011 Advocate's Organization Featured on PBS NewsHour
Monday, September 27, 2021

PBS NewsHour featured an organization founded by 2011 Advocate Salima Namusobya in a recent report on Uganda’s struggle to vaccinate its population. Salima is the founder and executive director of Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), an independent NGO that works to advance the effective understanding, monitoring, implementation and realization of economic and social rights in Uganda.

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