Alejandro Bonil Vaca
ab4672@columbia.edu
HRHP PA Humanitarian Policy
Eva McAvoy
em3374@columbia.edu
HRHP PA Human Rights
Internships and Opportunities
Human Rights Education and Arts Internship Program at Art & Resistance through Education
ARTE is currently seeking a group of committed and hardworking interns for the upcoming semesters. Either for September 2019 – January 2020 or February 2020 – June 2020, or both! For details click here.
UNDP - The Future of Digital Development
SIPA students are invited to UNDP’s high-level corporate event on the side of the 74th UN General Assembly entitled “The Digital Future of Development”. It will be held on Wednesday, 25 September 2019, from 6:30 to 7:45 PM, in Conference Room 2 of the UN Secretariat. Students are also invited to join the Online Global Consultation on Breakthrough Solutions in the lead up to the event. For details click here.
Global Youth Connect "Human Rights and the Political Power of Music"
Full program details and applications are available here.
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. Accounts gathered by Nasir Uddin (Professor, University of Chittagong) 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.
