Election and Human Rights Series: Indigenous Peoples Rights and Elections

A number of complex questions arise when it comes to elections and Indigenous Peoples. Disenfranchisement has taken different forms for different groups in this country. It has also had different historical roots, settler-colonial, social, political roots and legal/constitutional roots. Keeping in mind historical, socio-political and legal factors, what are the most critical contextual problems for each of these sectors for participation of Native Americans in elections? How is the fundamental right of equality and non-discrimination challenged in elections in this country?

New Slack Community

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

ISHR has created a Slack community to facilitate knowledge-sharing and to help human rights community members communicate and support one another during this difficult time.

Elsa Stamatopoulou

Submitted by drupal_admin on February 16, 2024 - 7:21am

Elsa Stamatopoulou joined Columbia University in 2011 after a 31-year service at the United Nations (in Vienna, Geneva and New York) with some 22 years dedicated to human rights, in addition to 8 years exclusively devoted to Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Indigenous issues were part of her portfolio since 1983 and she became the first Chief of the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2003.

Julie Rajan

Submitted by drupal_admin on October 12, 2023 - 2:55pm
Julie Rajan is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University; an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Masters Program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-NB; and a member of the Affiliate Faculty in The Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-NB. Her research interests include: women’s human rights; gender-based violence in conflict; and colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms.

Daniela Ikawa

Submitted by drupal_admin on September 28, 2023 - 11:24am
Daniela Ikawa teaches Introduction to Human Rights and Equality, Identity and Rights in the Human Rights Studies M.A. Program.She is a legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.  She was formerly the Coordinator of the Working Group on Strategic Litigation at the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
 

Bruce Cronin

Submitted by drupal_admin on September 28, 2023 - 11:20am
Bruce Cronin is Professor of Political Science and and Department Chair at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York. Professor Cronin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cronin's specialties are in the fields of international law, international organizations, and human rights.

Michael Bochenek

Submitted by drupal_admin on September 28, 2023 - 11:18am

Michael Garcia Bochenek is senior counsel to the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, focusing on juvenile justice and refugee and migrant children. He has researched and reported on criminal and juvenile justice systems and prison conditions, the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, the exploitation of migrant workers and other labor rights issues, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, and rights violations in armed conflict, including the use of children as soldiers.

Jo Becker

Submitted by drupal_admin on September 28, 2023 - 11:15am
Jo Becker is the advocacy director for Human Rights Watch's children's rights division, where she is responsible for the organization's global advocacy strategies on issues including child labor, children and armed conflict, juvenile justice, and violence against children.
 

Noah Chasin

Submitted by drupal_admin on September 27, 2023 - 2:33pm

Noah Chasin is Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture in the Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP. He received his Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban History from the CUNY Graduate Center and is a historian/critic/theorist with a specific emphasis on the relationship between urban design/planning and human rights. His teaching, research, and writing center on issues of human rights in zones of urban conflict, questioning the ways in which citizenship and access are adjudicated in urban social networks.