Happy Week, Everyone!  

Hope you had a restful weekend and are now ready for the NYC Career Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs next Wednesday, February 19. Panelists include Daniel Bradley, International Justice Coordinator at MADRE, and Ericka Dixon, National Capacity Building Coordinator for the NYC Anti-Violence Project. For more information, you can contact OCS and check CampusGroups. 

Refugee Return: Understanding the Dynamics of Refugee Repatriation and Alternative Solutions

Despite human rights prohibitions against returning refugees to a country where their life or liberty is in danger, governments across the world are finding ever more creative ways to send asylum seekers back. But what actually happens when refugees return? This panel organized by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights will examine new research on the dynamics of refugee repatriation, and discuss how policymakers can use these findings to develop alternative solutions to forced migration situations. 

When: Thursday, February 20, 2020.  4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Where: IAB Room 707

Don't Miss This Opportunity! 

Please join us for the Professional Development Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation for human rights and humanitarian practictioners, organized by the HRHP Concentration, HAWT, HRWG, and the Office of Career Services. 

The instructor, Simon Fuchs, is the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) technical unit. He leads IRC’s initiatives to develop agency-wide indicators for economic wellbeing outcomes, M&E planning tools and methodologies, data collection and analysis, indicator reporting and data use/interpretation for cash assistance, food security and livelihoods programs in the Middle East, West Africa, and East Africa regions.

When: Tuesday, February 25, 2020.  4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Where: IAB Room 405
 

What We Are Reading 

• On Valentine’s Day, a push to keep companies from making chocolate with cocoa grown with child labor
• Housing as a human right gives people more power
• RSF calls on EU Member States to reinforce journalists’ protections against spyware
• Justice for past crimes can build a shared future, speech by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet 
• Next March, the Commission on the Status of Women will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration

Yours in love, rights & solidarity,

The Human Rights Working Group Board (2020)