Events

Past Events

Fake News Legislation in Southeast Asia and the Impact on Freedom of Expression
Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Since 2017, individual governments in Southeast Asia have established task forces, convened select committee hearings and have proposed or passed legislation to combat “fake news”.

Refugee Issues in Chad and Argentina with Participants in the 2019 Human Rights Advocates Program
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:10 PM

Refugee Issues in Chad and Argentina with Participants in the 2019 Human Rights Advocates Program

Charbonnel Nodjigoto, Association Jeunesse pour la Paix et la Non Violence, Chad

Mariano Ruiz, International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia Committee, Argentina

Cultural Rights and Human Rights: Questioning Protection
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM

Speaker: Elsa Stamatopoulou, Former Chief of the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Director, Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University.

Screening of "Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up"
Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Please join the ISHR Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program for a screening of the award winning film, in the presence of the film director,

Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up

Stereotypes as Grounds for Discrimination: Women & the LGBT Community in Armenian Courts & Penitentiaries
Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) for a presentation by human rights advocate Maria Abrahamyan.

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