News

Thursday, April 2, 2020

ISHR has created a Slack community to facilitate knowledge-sharing and to help human rights community members communicate and support one another during this difficult time. Students have program specific channels, but we also encourage people to use our #general channel to share information, reflections, and resources.

Kemal Pervanic
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Kemal Pervanic is the founder and executive director of Most Mira (Bridge of Peace) as well as an author and filmmaker. During the Bosnian War, he was held in two concentration camps, including the notorious Omarska. When the war ended, he moved to London. Ten years later, he returned to Bosnia-Herzegovina where he was alarmed to find misrepresentations of what had transpired in the country formally known as Yugoslavia.

Monday, March 30, 2020

By David L. Phillips

Friday, March 27, 2020

Madiha Choksi, Research Technologist at Columbia University and Master in Human Rights Graduate and Dr. Pierre Elias, Cardiology Fellow at Columbia University developed 3D printed face shields for health care workers amidst shortage due to COVID19 crisis. Dr.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

AHDA Alumnus received prestigious 2019 French Human Right Prize. Youth Initiative for Human Rights Croatia (YIHR) received French government prize “Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood” (“Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”) for the "Shared Narratives" project supporting reconciliation among youth