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2020 Essay Contest Winners
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

ISHR congratulates the following winners of the 2020 Human Rights Essay Contest:

Undergraduate Student Winners: 
Noa Levy-Baron, General Studies, Essay title: "Art Therapy with Refugees:Overcoming Processes of Pathologization and Fostering Social Integration"
Lucienne Marie Paradis, General Studies, Essay title: "(Un)Dividing the Balkan City of Bridges: School Reform and Re-structuring in Post-Conflict Mostar as a Model of Positive Peace Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina"

Graduate Student Winners:

Alumni Highlight
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.

Summer Program 2020 application is now open!
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

ISHR’s Human Rights Summer Program, developed in conjunction with the School of Professional Studies, emphasizes the interaction between human rights theory and practice and offers students the opportunity to explore human rights both inside and outside the classroom.

Alumni Highlight
Monday, March 16, 2020

Amir Ashour, a Master in Human Rights graduate from Columbia University, is the Founder and Executive Director of IraQueer, Iraq’s first national LGBT+ organization. Founded in 2015, IraQueer has reached one million people offline and online through working on advocacy, education, and providing direct services like safe housing and medical services.

How to identify a contemporary authoritarian regime
To identify a contemporary authoritarian regime, we can start by asking what Hungary and Brazil have in common.
Friday, March 13, 2020

By Daniela Ikawa

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