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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

AHDA alumni quoted in The New York Times
Monday, April 13, 2020

Two AHDA alumni quoted in an article “From Prominent Turkish Philanthropist to Political Prisoner” about Mr. Osman Kavala in The New York Times on April 9, 2020.

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