Happy Monday! Yes, midterms are here and yes, we know you'll do an amazing job!
We want to thank you for coming to our Community Hour. Eva and Alejandro took notes on all questions, comments and feedback you kindly mentioned. We will try and follow up with all of them.
Remember, The Harlem Walking Tour has been rescheduled!. We are looking forward to see you this Friday, October 11th from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
A message from OSA: remember there are some amazing mental health and wellness resources at our office.
Save the date! Our Fall Humanitarian Conference is around the corner on November 22nd.
Very best,
Team HRHP
Upcoming Events
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The Voices of the Victims: The Rohingyas and their “Subhuman” life
The Rohingyas, widely known as the world’s most persecuted ethnic minority, experienced an unprecedented brutality committed by Myanmar security forces along in collaboration with some ethnic extremists and Buddhist fundamentalist. Under the pretext of counter insurgency following an alleged attack by ARSA on August 25, 2017 onwards, Myanmar security forces indiscriminately killed, randomly raped and intentionally burnt houses and properties of the civilian Rohingya people in Rakhine state. A report prepared by a three-member-panel appointed by the United Nations published in August 2018 showed that the brutal military crackdown in 2017 triggered an influx of 725,000 [until now 750,000] Rohingyas to Bangladesh, more than 10,000 were killed on the ground in the first two months, hundreds of girls and women were ganged raped, and around 392 villages were partially or totally destroyed. Combined with previous waves of refugees, now 1.3 million Rohingyas live in Ukhia and Teknaf refugee camps which are considered as the world’s largest camps. The intensity of atrocity was so extreme that the UN Human Rights Council’s Chief termed it as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” whilst many scholars and many credible media outlets called it “genocide.”
Accounts gathered by Nasir Uddin from the Rohingyas living in Ukhia and Teknaf unfold the horrible ways they were dealt with as if they were lesser than human beings what Uddin terms “subhuman” life. This talk presents the first-hand narratives of the Rohingya refugees, the voices of the victims, in the broader spectrum of statelessness, refugeehood and human rights in the world.
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The Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration presents SIPA Alumna SiuSue Mark on her work related to Myanmar's transition to democracy.
In her own words: "To understand the complexity of Myanmar’s transition in the early years, I use land politics as the lens with which to explain the dynamics of a country undergoing a three-part transition: from authoritarianism to democracy, from decades of armed conflict to peace, and from state-planning to open markets. I look at how different state and societal actors in the multi-ethnic society of Myanmar negotiate politics to shape land institutions in the era of the global land rush--referring to the phenomenon of transnational capital in search of low-cost land, which intensified after 2007 in response to global food price spikes."
Ever wondered how to get a job at the UN? Wondering how the UN recruitment process works and how best to prepare for the UN interview? How can you use your time at SIPA to build your resume, expertise, and network to land one of the coveted jobs at the UN?
Come learn the answers to these and many more questions at our first event as part of the UN Career Series. Professor Daniel Naujoks, Interim Director of IO/UNS Specialization at SIPA, will share his experience of working with various UN entities, such as UNDP, ILO, UNICEF, World Bank, OECD, IOM, ESCWA, and UN-DESA.
Lunch will be provided.
Co-Sponsored by Columbia SIPA | Economic and Political Development Concentration
*** The first four students who respond to this newsletter will receive a free HRHP tote-bag. (Useful for grocery shopping - help us reduce plastic use!)
Other events
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Book talk: Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia
This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point, and to prevent such tragedies from occurring in the future, this book presents an interdisciplinary analysis to address the disaster which resulted in a radical change in the functioning of the garment industry.
Professor Elazar Barkan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration at SIPA, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
