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Human Rights Summer Program Visits the United Nations
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

On July 31st students in the Summer Human Rights Program attended a site visit to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, organized by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Graduate, undergraduate, and visiting human rights students met with Kelly L. Razzouk, Human Rights Adviser at the Mission and had the opportunity to ask questions about the United States’ engagement with the UN system on human rights. Ms. Razzouk also discussed priority human rights issue areas and U.S.

Human Rights in National Security
ISHR's Kristina Eberbach Contributes to New Amnesty Toolkit
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Amnesty International USA announced the release of a new toolkit for students and educators on human rights in national security. This free toolkit is intended to raise awareness among students ages 16-20 of the intersection of human rights and national security. Additionally, it is intended to increase participation among high school and college students in activism and advocacy around torture, surveillance, anti-Muslim hate, indefinite detention, and other common human rights violations associated with post-9/11 U.S.

Student Highlight
Haley Zovickian
Monday, June 19, 2017

Haley Zovickian is a 2017 graduate of Columbia College with a double major in Human Rights and Political Science. Prior to graduating, Zovickian discussed her experience as a student in the Undergraduate Human Rights Program.

Questioning “Resilience”
RightsViews article by Stephanie Ann Euber
Monday, June 5, 2017

In a new RightsViews article, alumni Stephanie Ann Euber questions the words we use to talk about women who have survived gender-based violence.

Student Highlight
Gabriella Levy
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Gabriella Levy is a senior majoring in Political Science with a double concentration in Human Rights and Hispanic Studies. She will also be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society, on May 16, 2017. Levy has been accepted into a Ph.D program in Political Science at Duke University.

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