News

Congratulations and farewell Dr. Inga Winkler
Friday, June 18, 2021

ISHR would like to congratulate Inga Winkler on her new position as Associate Professor in International Human Right Law at the Central European University in Vienna. Professor Winkler joined ISHR in 2016 as one of our first two full-time lecturers. In addition to advising students and serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies, she taught International Human Rights Law, the Human Rights Senior Seminar, the Human Rights Thesis Seminar, UN Human Rights Bodies, Socio-Economic Rights, and Menstruation, Gender and Rights.

2016 Advocate Co-leads Workshop for Indigenous Women and Girls
Friday, June 11, 2021

In cooperation with the International Indigenous Women's Forum/Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas, 2016 Advocate Aehshatou Manu and her colleagues from AIWO-CAN led a capacity building workshop on the empowerment of indigenous women, girls and youth with a focus on leadership, rights, and the impact of COVID-19 on their communities in Cameroon.

Advocate Leads Delegation to Mauritania to Eradicate Slavery
Friday, June 4, 2021

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia (speaking) and Sean Tanner, founders of The Abolition Institute, led a delegation to Mauritania and Senegal in May. Tandia reports: “No words can describe how thrilled I am about the visit.

2021 Human Rights Research Fellowship Recipients
Friday, June 4, 2021

ISHR launched a new fellowship opportunity - the Human Rights Research Fellowship - which provides funding to students who wish to gain valuable research experience, while supporting the work of Columbia faculty conducting human rights-related research. Human rights students across Columbia received a research fellowship to support faculty in the departments of Political Science (Barnard and Columbia), History (Barnard College), the Center on Sustainable Investment (Columbia Law School), Peace and Human Rights Education (Teachers College). 

 

Upcoming Panel Discussion and Report
Friday, June 4, 2021

International Federation for Human Rights is publishing a new report: "Russia: Crimes Against History" and is organizing an online conference on June 10 to coincide with its launch. The report details the violations of human rights committed by the Russian regime in furtherance of State historical memory policy, to the detriment of historians, activists, NGOs and other "history producers" that work on commemorating victims of Soviet era crimes.

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