News

Monday, January 25, 2016

ISHR’s University Human Rights Education in Myanmar project has recently returned from Myanmar after completing its second in-person training at Yangon University from January 6-9, 2016.

Human Rights Graduate Group Completes Successful Charity Drive
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Human Rights Graduate Group, in partnership with SIPA Spectrum, SIPA Gender Policy Working Group and Columbia University Students for Human Rights, hosted a charity drive to benefit New Alternatives, a organization dedicated to helping homeless LGBT youth.

Monday, January 11, 2016

2009 Advocate Mary Akrami, Director of the Afghan Women's Skills Development Centre in Kabul, attended the international launch of Human Rights Defenders - Lives in the Balance, the Front Line Defenders 2015 Annual Report.

Monday, January 11, 2016

UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, Ms Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, spoke at Columbia University.

Monday, January 11, 2016

Elsa Stamatopoulou, Director of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program at ISHR attended the International Whaling Commission Export Workshop on Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Maniitsoq, Greenland in September.