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Bakary Tandia, a graduate of the 2010 Human Rights Advocates Program, recently coordinated the New York visit of Biram Dah Abeid, the president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania, who was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
ISHR celebrated the end of another successful academic year with the annual end of year reception on Thursday, April 27th. Four graduating students presented their theses:
Grace Beya, Human Rights Studies M.A. Program
- Sexual Violence Beyond the War: Dismantling and Addressing Domestic Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Iva Gumniska, Human Rights Major
The American NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) convener John Washburn spoke as a panelist in three events and conducted two student briefings in 2017 so far. Washburn discussed the outlook for Trump administration attitudes toward the International Criminal Court, the current status of the ICC, the progress of ICC cases, and the possibility of more member withdrawals from the ICC.
David L. Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights, writes in the Huffington Post that Serbia represents the epicenter of Russia’s anti-American agenda to destabilize pro-western states.