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2022 -23 ISHR Year in Review
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

ISHR is pleased to announce that our 2022-23 Year in Review report is now available. The report includes a summary of key activities and contributions of our programs and projects during the academic year 2022-23. Click here to read the full report.

9 AUGUST 2023: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Thursday, August 3, 2023

On the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights pays tribute to the struggles of the Indigenous Peoples for dignity, justice and human rights and stands in solidarity with Indigenous human rights defenders.

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is celebrated with events around the world. The Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in response to Indigenous Peoples’ advocacy and was first marked in 1994.

The 2023 International Summer Program on Peoples’ Rights and Policy was completed on 9 June 2023
Monday, June 12, 2023
The 2023 Program (22 May to 9 June 2023) was successfully completed on June 9th. The Program is organized by Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. It enjoys the cosponsorship and collaboration of the University of British Columbia in Canada and the University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Twenty-seven participants from fifteen countries and seventeen Indigenous nations participated in this year’s Program, which took place in a remote format.
Art and Human Rights: A Multicultural Approach to Contemporary Issues
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The above edited volume on a timely and often neglected area of human rights is published by Edward Elgar Publishing, with Fiana Gantheret, Nolwenn Guibert and Sofia Stolk as co-editors. Prof. Elsa Stamatopoulou of ISHR has included a chapter on The Human Rights of Artists. The launch event will take place on June 9th online. Please click here to see poster.

Seminar on International Human Rights Procedures organized for Indigenous Authorities in Bolivia, 14 May 2023
Monday, May 15, 2023
The Fundación Pueblos de Montaña of Bolivia, in cooperation with the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), organized a “Seminar on Drafting Complaints and Using United Nations Procedures Against Human Rights Violations”. The Seminar took place via Zoom on May 14th and was addressed to Indigenous Authorities of Bolivia. More than 40 people participated. Professor Elsa Stamatopoulou of ISHR gave the seminar and discussed it with the participants.

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