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Congratulations to 1996 Advocate Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Founder and Executive Director of Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project in Uganda, who was honored by Shenandoah University (Virigina, USA) with a Doctorate in Humanities.
ISHR’s Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program hosted the International Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Rights at Columbia University on May 14th & 15th.
Brian Phillips, co-founder of the Journal of Human Rights Practice led a call on publishing on human rights practices.
2011 Advocate Ifeanyi Orazulike, Executive Director of the International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH), presented at the Informal Interactive Civil Society Hearing on HIV at the United Nations in April. Ifeanyi addressed the need to reach out to prisoners and men who have sex with men (MSM).
David Philips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at ISHR and Van Krikorian, Co-Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America, call for US to intensify mediation between Azerbaijan and the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in a recent Huffington Post article. They argue the US should impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on Azerbaijan following a recent escalation in cease-fire violations.