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Summer Volunteer Program 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
During summer 2020, three Columbia University students volunteered with organizations affiliated with the Alliance of Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellowship (AHDA) alumni and one with an organization affiliated with the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) alumni. These opportunities were created through the Summer Volunteer Program based at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights.
Welcoming the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability fellows!
Monday, September 21, 2020

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights is pleased to welcome the 9th cohort of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability fellows to Columbia University program for the 2020-2021 cycle. Fellows who join the program this year come from Argentina, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Kosovo, Nigeria, Turkey, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Since 2012, the program has been hosting 96 fellows representing over 47 countries and territories from various regions around the world.  

AHDA alumna publishes new book
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

AHDA alumna Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska (2018) together with Dr. Joanna Ostrowska and Dr. Lutz van Dijk released a new volume "Erinnern in Auschwitz much an sexuelle Minderheiten" in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A first preview of the book in German will take place online on Wednesday, 23 September 2020 via #allabendlichqueer

Click here to register for the event

August 30th is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Enforced disappearances are a result of conflicts or periods of repression in at least 85 countries around the world and have been frequently used as a strategy in complex situations of internal conflict, especially as a means of political repression of opponents.

Fellow Highlight
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

AHDA alumnus (2014) Oriol Lopez Badell comments for The Guardian and Vilaweb on colonialism and slavery in Barcelona, Spain. Oriol López-Badell is a historian at the European Observatory on Memories at the University of Barcelona.

To read The Guardian article, "Columbus statue will stay, but slavery tour aims to address Barcelona’s past," please click here. 

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