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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Film Festivals continue to offer their Indigenous programs online, sometimes for long duration online, sometimes only for the posted day/time, some are in hybrid form, with a combination of screenings in theaters and drive-ins and online, and some returning to screens. In most cases, you can link directly to the Festival’s own website to see the schedule, titles and descriptions of this year’s streamed programs. In May the expansive scope of Asian and Pacific Island heritages in the United States is focused on annually.

Monday, May 17, 2021

ISHR is happy to release the 2020-21 HRAP report. Congratulations to the advocates who completed the program which was held online over two semesters. Many thanks to all who contributed to the program.

Monday, May 17, 2021

In mid-May 2021, Conservation International, Liberia, led by Country Director Peter G. Mulbah (right), handed over computers and other key office items to the Ministry of Agriculture. Peter attended the 2008 Human Rights Advocates Program at ISHR.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

AHDA alumna Raba Gjoshi writes an op-ed for Prishtina Insight entitled "Victims of the Kosovo War Should be at the Heart of the Dialogue". The article explores the international community previous missteps in facilitating Kosovo-Serbia dialogues, offering suggestions on a viable path forward.

Click here to read the full op-ed.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

The blog article is entitled "Documentation on Architectural Preservation and Documentation, Human Rights, Memory and Trauma". Banu discusses her area of focus, which in her own words, consists of studying and surveying historical architectural heritage sites in Turkey, focusing on sites that belonged to difficult pasts and that don’t necessarily fit neatly within a reductive or glorifying national historical narrative." 

Find the full interview here: