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Advocate Highlight
Mary Akrami
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

2009 Advocate Mary Akrami is the executive director of Afghan Women Network, an organization dedicated to the advancement of women’s engagement in peacebuilding in Afghanistan. Mary initiated the use of community-based peace councils throughout Afghanistan to allow women to engage in conflict resolution at the local level. She is also the founder and former executive director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, an organization focused on the rights of women affected by violence. She established the first shelter for women at risk of violence in 2003.

2019 AHDA ANNUAL PROGRAM REPORT
Monday, May 4, 2020

The Alliance for Historical Dialogue's 2019 Annual Program Report is now available.

Click here to read the full report.

Click here to read past AHDA Program Reports.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz completes her mandate after 6 years as UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Friday, May 1, 2020

By Elsa Stamatopoulou

Alumni Highlight
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Sarah Case, a 2015 graduate of Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights MA program, is a Program Manager for the Global Transitional Justice Initiative at the International Sites of Conscience (ICSC), a global network of historic sites, museums and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights.

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:

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