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Criminalizing Abortion: A Threat to Women’s Rights and Lives
By Rowena Kosher
Monday, February 12, 2018
Human Rights Education Needs Greater Attention in U.S. Higher Education
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA) Network and the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE) submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council highlighting the need for greater human rights education across higher education institutions in the United States.

Reflections on the UN Human Rights Committee: 40 Years of Practice
By Ido Dembin
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
ISHR Welcomes Zoë West
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights welcomes Zoë West to our faculty. West is an anthropologist and oral historian whose work centers on labor, migration, and human rights. She is teaching Human Rights & Oral History: Testimony, Memory, and Trauma at Columbia University in Spring 2018.

The Radical Martin Luther King We Do Not Know
Joe Chuman Addresses NY Society for Ethical Culture
Thursday, January 18, 2018

In an address to the New York Society for Ethical Culture, ISHR Professor Dr. Joe Chuman looked beyond Martin Luther King, Jr.'s critique of racism and white supremacy and spoke on his greater vision of American society, including his condemnation of American militarism, imperialism, and materialism and the perils of capitalism.

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