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Ifeanyi Orazulike
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

2011 Advocate Ifeanyi Orazulike, Executive Director of the International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH), presented at the Informal Interactive Civil Society Hearing on HIV at the United Nations in April. Ifeanyi addressed the need to reach out to prisoners and men who have sex with men (MSM).

By David Phillips and Van Krikorian
Sunday, April 10, 2016

David Philips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at ISHR and Van Krikorian, Co-Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America, call for US to intensify mediation between Azerbaijan and the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in a recent Huffington Post article. They argue the US should impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on Azerbaijan following a recent escalation in cease-fire violations.

Monday, March 28, 2016

2009 Advocate Mary Akrami of Afghanistan (left) was in New York for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Jillian Carson
Monday, March 28, 2016

Congratulations to 2012 graduate Jillian Carson for her work on a Massachusetts bill to extend the statute of limitations for international human rights abuses. 

Carson currently in her second year at New England Law | Boston. She is also the research assistant at the school’s Center for International Law and Policy. The Center coordinates research projects for students in partnership with international organizations in various areas of international law.

Legacies of Slavery in Barcelona
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

As part of the Memory, Architecture, and Public Space Traveling Seminar, 2014 AHDA Fellow Oriol López-Badell and the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) launched the walking tour Legacies of slavery in Barcelona: Monuments and Public Spaces.