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Columbia University Launches Open Online Course ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights’ on EdX.org
Course Examines Interface of Indigenous Peoples Movement and International Community
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

NEW YORK, New York. Columbia University has released an open online course, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, to examine how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, and how they have been re-shaping and gradually decolonizing these systems at international and national levels. The self-paced course is free and open to all on edX.org with an optional paid verified certificate program.

Columbia alumna Carla Fredericks appointed to head Christensen Fund, focusing on rights-based work supporting Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Carla Fredericks, Columbia Law School alumna, scholar, lawyer and advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ rights in governance, development and global policy has been appointed as the new Executive Director of The Christensen Fund. Carla Fredericks currently serves as Clinical Professor and Director of the American Indian Law Clinic at Colorado Law.

International Congress of Cultural and Creative Industries 2020
Jalisco, Mexico, October 28, 29, 30, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights, through its Indigenous Peoples Rights Program, will participate at the International Congress of Cultural and Creative Industries 2020. The Congress is organized online by the Ministry of Culture of Jalisco and The Office of UNESCO in Mexico. The Director of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Program, Elsa Stamatopoulou, will give a keynote address on 28 October on "Cultural Rights in the Covid Crisis".

The Media War by Azerbaijan and Turkey against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

by Lisa Gulesserian (Harvard University) and David L. Phillips (Columbia University)

Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights is now available
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Edited by Daniela Ikawa, ISHR's Adjunct Assistant Professor, among others, this exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and inclusive approach to ESCR as human rights. 

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