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Advocacy at Work
Human Rights Video Series
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Human Rights Watch and the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University have produced the online human rights advocacy video series Advocacy at Work. The series goes behind the scenes at Human Rights Watch to explain how they put together advocacy strategies to deal with human rights abuses.

Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture
Lecture by ISHR's David L. Phillips
Monday, November 7, 2016

Lecture by ISHR's David L. Phillips

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Issues Statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Monday, November 7, 2016

Mr. Alvaro Pop Ac, Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Ms. Dalee Dorough and Chief Edward John, Members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues issued a statement on the Protests on the Dakota Access Pipeline on November 4th. The full statement included below.

World Indigenous Law Conference
Prof. Elsa Stamatopoulou represents Columbia University
Monday, November 7, 2016

Under the theme of Rights, Responsibilities, and Resilience: An International Discourse on Indigenous Peoples’ Jurisprudence, the 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference took place at the Beckman Center in the traditional territories of the Tongva and Acjachemen Peoples (Irvine, CA, U.S.A.). The Indigenous Law Conference takes place every two years; the first took place in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second in Australia and the third, this year, in Irvine.

Cultural & Historical Crossroads in Southeast Europe
Shared History Project
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

The Program on Peacebuilding and Human Rights recently convened faculty and graduate students for a dialogue on shared history between Greeks and Macedonians. Click here the conference agenda.

Alongside academic papers, the students are establishing personal relations. In April 2017, Greek students will visit Skopje to release their co-publication and participate in other meetings.

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