Rashid Khalidi, Alice Miller, Tiawan Gongloe, Oscar Vilhena Viera, and Peter Rosenblum at 25th Anniversary Conference, 2003.
Announcing the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
The Trustees of Columbia University have approved a proposal for the Center for the Study of Human Rights to become an institute in order to coordinate human rights studies throughout the university and connect with scholars and practitioners around the world.
The change is effective immediately, and the more than 30-year-old center is now the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR).
2009 Advocates Evalyne Achan of Uganda and Akinyi Ocholla of Kenya and Stephanie Grepo of CSHR met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the UNA-USA’s annual gala in November 2009.
