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Alumni Highlight
Thursday, February 6, 2020
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights congratulates Human Rights graduate Shireen Jalali-Yazdi on winning the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights for her paper “Colonized Masculinities and Feminicide in the United States: How Conditions of Coloniality Socialize Feminicidal Men”. The Audre Ra
Advocate Highlight
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Zach Norris attended the 2007 HRAP.  He recently published his first book "We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities". The book lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment toward growth and support systems for families and communities. He advocates for truly dismantling the Us vs. Them mentality, building relationships within the community and bridging the divides.

(CLOSED)The International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy at Columbia University is Now Open for Applications
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

UPDATE: The deadline for applications has now passed. Please check again next year to submit your application for 2021.

Conversations With a Mass Murderer
By Belinda Cooper
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
MY WAR CRIMINAL
Personal Encounters With an Architect of Genocide
By Jessica Stern
Kurds in Iran: Current Conditions and Future Prospects
Friday, January 31, 2020

By: Christine Caldera

The Program on Peace-building and Human Rights (PBHR) at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights convened a roundtable on “Kurds in Iran: Current Conditions and Future Prospects” on January 27. The meeting was co-sponsored with the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI).

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