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“How to: Indigenous Governance and Diplomacy for the NOW”
A series of webinars
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
The Institute’s Indigenous Peoples Rights Program was pleased to participate in the initiative of indigenous leaders, media and support organizations. A series of webinars under the title “How to: Indigenous Governance and Diplomacy for the NOW” has been organized for July and August 2020 by The Gomaluku Podcast in collaboration with Tuomas Aslak Juuso (President of the Saami Parliament in Finland), DOCIP (Center for Documentation of Indigenous Peoples), Drumbeat Media and TV Indigena.
Alumni Highlight
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Shayna Halliwell, a Human Rights M.A. graduate, is currently based in Dakar working as a Partnerships Specialist for The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for francophone and lusophone West Africa and North Africa (17 countries in total). 

Photo by Filip Gielda on Unsplash
Aviâja Egede Lynge, HRAP alumna, promotes significant human rights reform
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The Government of Greenland approves historic National Action Plan to comply with UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. For decades it has been documented that many children in Greenland live under very difficult conditions. Greenland has major socioecomic problems, including care neglect and high levels of suicide and substance abuse.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz completes her mandate after 6 years as UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Friday, May 1, 2020

By Elsa Stamatopoulou

Indigenous women from FIMI at Columbia in 2019
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ISHR) HELD “INDIGENOUS WOMEN LEADERS AT COLUMBIA” A THREE-DAY SEMINAR
Monday, April 13, 2020
NEW YORK — The first two weeks of April the Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights (through its Indigenous Peoples Rights Program) held an online three-day seminar titled “Indigenous Women Leaders at Columbia.” The virtual seminar is part of the 7th annual Global Leadership School of Indigenous Women program. 

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