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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

2020-21 HRAP report
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.

Advocate Highlight
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.

Fellow Highlight
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.

AHDA fellow Banu Pekol (2020-2021) interviewed with the Columbia University Libraries Global Studies Blog
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: 

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