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Upcoming Panel Discussion and Report
Friday, June 4, 2021

International Federation for Human Rights is publishing a new report: "Russia: Crimes Against History" and is organizing an online conference on June 10 to coincide with its launch. The report details the violations of human rights committed by the Russian regime in furtherance of State historical memory policy, to the detriment of historians, activists, NGOs and other "history producers" that work on commemorating victims of Soviet era crimes.

Advocate Highlight
Friday, May 28, 2021

2009 Human Rights Advocates Program alumni Mary Akrami (third from left) and Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Kabul Ian J. McCary met to discuss the role of women in building peace and unity in Afghanistan. 

Fellow update
Friday, May 28, 2021

Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability alumna (2020-2021) Marija Ristic co-authors an article on "Serbia Shields Commanders from Kosovo Wartime Atrocity Cases" in BalkanInsight. The article reflects on twenty-one years after a massacre by Yugoslav Army soldiers in Kosovo. Furthermore, it details how the trial of the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing and how a Serbian court has ruled that senior commanders cannot be held legally responsible for crimes committed by their subordinates.

The 2021 International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy was launched on 17 May 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021

The 2021 Program (17 May-4 June) is cosponsored by Columbia’s Institute for the Study

of Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and enjoys the

2008 Advocate Marks Day Against Homophobia
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Dr. Alejandro Rivera Marroquín and his team at the Chiapas Secretary of Health (Mexico) marked the National Day against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Dr. Rivera said: 

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