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2020 Essay Contest Winners
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

ISHR congratulates the following winners of the 2020 Human Rights Essay Contest:

Undergraduate Student Winners: 
Noa Levy-Baron, General Studies, Essay title: "Art Therapy with Refugees:Overcoming Processes of Pathologization and Fostering Social Integration"
Lucienne Marie Paradis, General Studies, Essay title: "(Un)Dividing the Balkan City of Bridges: School Reform and Re-structuring in Post-Conflict Mostar as a Model of Positive Peace Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina"

Graduate Student Winners:

Fellow Highlight
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Another mention of “The Archive of Memory” by AHDA alumna Hasini Haputhanthri in Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror. 

In Memory of 1990 Advocate Felipe Michelini
Monday, April 20, 2020

“La dignidad de las personas, independientemente de toda condición accesoria a la condición de persona humana, es una premisa que debe sustentar ética, política y jurídicamente a toda sociedad democrática.”  -- Felipe Michelini

Humanitarian Cooperation Between Kurds in Iraq and Syria
Friday, April 17, 2020

By David L. Phillips

Columbia University has been facilitating a “humanitarian dialogue” between Kurds in Iraq and Syria. Bayan Abdul Rahman, representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in DC and Sinam Sherkany Mohammed, representative of the Syrian Democratic Council in DC, exchanged information on humanitarian conditions during a zoom call hosted by Columbia and Refugees International on April 8, 2020.

Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)

HRAP Alum Speaks Out on Need to Include Women in Afghan Peace Process
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

DW News interviewed 2009 Advocate Mary Akrami of the Afghan Women Skills

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