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Mostafa Khezry, Paul Martin, Louis Henkin, and Lee Bollinger at the 25th Anniversary of CSHR Gala, 2003.

About CSHR

Established in 1978 at Columbia University, the Center for the Study of Human Rights is committed to three core goals of providing excellent human rights education to Columbia students, fostering innovative interdisciplinary academic research, and offering its expertise in capacity building to human rights leaders, organizations, and universities around the world.

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Fall 2009 human rights course lists

Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond by recent CSHR visiting scholar D'Ann R. Penner and Keith C. Ferdinand was released on March 3, 2009. More info and purchasing links...

CSHR featured in Columbia’s December 18 issue of The Record


CSHR was honored to host Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Muhammad Yunus for a presentation of his lecture “Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism” on January 27, 2009. An mp3 file is also available. Recordings courtesy of event co-sponsor, Columbia’s Committee for Global Thought.