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Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Policy Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Thursday, August 31, 2017

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race is pleased to mark the Fifth Anniversary of the Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy/Indigenous Studies Summer Program (ISSP) by launching, among other things, a webpage with profiles of alumni.

From 2013 to 2017 some 140 participants from forty countries and many Indigenous Peoples have attended ISSP. CESR is proud to have hosted people from all continents who continue to engage with Indigenous Peoples’ rights for years to come.

Student Volunteer Program Highlight
Human Rights student Stephanie Kim works with Indigenous Peoples in Nepal
Friday, August 11, 2017

Through ISHR's Student Volunteer Program, undergraduate Stephanie Kim volunteered in Nepal this summer with 2016 Advocate Chhing Lamu Sherpa of the NGO Mountain Spirit.

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

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.

ISHR Instructor Co-Authors Article on Inequalities in the Sustainable Development Agenda
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

ISHR instructor Inga Winkler co-authored an article in the International Journal of Human Rights on inequalities in the Sustainable Development Agenda. The article, titled Leaving no one behind? Persistent inequalities in the SDGs, examines how disaggregating data can be used to monitor inequalities affecting marginalized groups associated with particular group identities protected by human rights law that are not receiving sufficient attention.

Columbia Law Launches Security Force Monitor
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program welcomes the launch of the Security Force Monitor – a project of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute - which aims to increase the transparency and accountability of police, military and other security forces around the world by bringing together all publicly available information about commanders, organizational structures,

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