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Global Indigenous Youth: Through Their Eyes
Institute for the Study of Human Rights honors 2019 Native American Heritage Month at Columbia University
Thursday, October 31, 2019
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights is pleased to announce that, through its Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, it is launching the electronic edition of its recent publication, Global Indigenous Youth: Through Their Eyes, in honor of Native American Heritage Month. The electronic version of the whole book and, also, its chapters individually, has been posted on Columbia University’s Academic Commons.
2019 Advocates Speak on Issues Facing Refugees
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

2019 Advocates Charbonnel Nodjigoto of Chad and Mariano Ruiz of Argentina spoke about issues facing refugees in their respective countries. Prof. Lara Nettlefield moderated the talk which was attended by 12 students and sponsored by IAS and ISHR. 

Syria: Never again
Friday, October 25, 2019

By: J. Kenneth Blackwell and David L. Phillips, Voices Contributors

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to “cleanse” northern Syria of Kurds. Though the term “ethnic cleansing” originated during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, genocide and ethnic cleansing are functionally interchangeable. Both are crimes against humanity to which the U.S. must be adamantly opposed.

If Trump won’t sanction Turkey, Congress must
Wednesday, October 23, 2019


By David L. Phillips

TURKEY TARGETS SYRIA’S CHRISTIANS
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

By David L. Phillips

Repeating a lie often enough does not make it true. Trump adopted talking points from Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, asserting that the Kurds were killing Christians in northern Syria. The exact opposite is true. Kurds have protected Armenians and Chaldean Christians, while Turkey and its Islamist militias target them. Syria’s Christian population is in peril as a result of Turkey’s invasion, which came on the heels of Trump’s betrayal of America’s allies, the Kurds. 

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