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by Elsa Stamatopoulou*
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

We are very glad that Columbia now celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The University has followed the appeal of Native American students and numerous other students, faculty and staff over the years asking for this Day to be honored. The celebration of the Day is a clear trend among various other universities as well as cities and states in this country.

History of the Day

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

2016 HRAP participant, Samuel Matsikure, was interviewed by Bustop.tv about his work as the program manager at Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a leading local LGBTQI organisation.“Coming from a very conservative society, to be where I am right now meant that I had to take bold decisions.

Monday, October 4, 2021
Alum Trisha Mukherjee, CC '21, co-created the podcast People • Place • Power with Benjamin Swift (Colorado College).
Monday, September 27, 2021

PBS NewsHour featured an organization founded by 2011 Advocate Salima Namusobya in a recent report on Uganda’s struggle to vaccinate its population. Salima is the founder and executive director of Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), an independent NGO that works to advance the effective understanding, monitoring, implementation and realization of economic and social rights in Uganda.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Last week, ISHR Director Yasmine Ergas has an article published on Ingenere which explains how the Texas Heartbeat Act creates a scorched earth around any woman who might attempt to, or has had, an abortion.  In the article, Ergas writes that "Abortion rights have been defended in the United States as rights of privacy.  What Texas has just done is to strip women and, with them, an entire society of privacy." Read the full article here.