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2020 Human Rights Essay Contest
Submission Deadline: January 24, 2020.
Friday, January 24, 2020

ISHR is pleased to announce the 2020 Human Rights Essay Contest.  The contest aims to encourage and acknowledge students who have written exceptional academic papers that address issues related to human rights. Cash prizes will be awarded to two graduate students and to two undergraduate students. Contest winners, along with other selected participants, will be invited to present their papers at ISHR's annual end of year Research Poster Session

Do Menstrual Health and Hygiene Policies Matter? – A Human Rights Assessment
Thursday, January 23, 2020

In November 2019, Kenya adopted the world’s first stand-alone policy on menstrual hygiene. India has been integrating menstrual hygiene efforts in its sanitation policies for more than 10 years. And in the United States, we are counting down the States that still tax menstrual products. – These are just some of the policy developments in the menstrual health space.

Advocate Highlight
Betty Lee Odur
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Betty Lee Odur attended the 2016 HRAP. She is a Legal/Program Officer at the Uganda Network on Law, Ethic and HIV/AIDS (UGANET), an NGO committed to the development and strengthening of policies and ethical responses to HIV/AIDS in Uganda. She has headed the Kampala office since 2011. She earned a bachelor’s of legal laws from Uganda Christian University in 2008 and a postgraduate diploma in legal practice from the Law Development Center in 2009.

ISHR Congratulates the Recipients of the Human Rights Research Fellowship 
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The ISHR Human Rights Research Fellowship will provide students with an opportunity to gain valuable research experience, while supporting the work of Columbia faculty conducting human rights-related research. 

This year's fellowship recipients are:

Advocate Highlight
Sylvester Uhaa
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Sylvester Uhaa attended the 2013 HRAP. He is the founder and director of Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) in Nigeria, a chapter of International CURE. Under Sylvester’s leadership, CURE-Nigeria has grown from a state to a national organization. In 2011, CURE-Nigeria hosted the 5th International CURE Global Conference on Justice Reforms. CURE-Nigeria has organized training workshops to build the capacity and skills of judicial officers and police on human rights, alternative dispute resolution, and restorative justice.

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