Dear HRWGers <3
Please welcome the new HRWG 2020 Board! Thank you for your continued interest in advocating for human rights and engaging with the wider Columbia community to discuss very important and pressing issues.
Your new HRWG 2020 Board:
Co-President - Marjorie Tolsdorf
Co-President - Liz Olson
Treasurer - Rebecca Bonner
Communications Chair - Gloria Moronta
Community Outreach Chair - Talisa J. Anderson
Events Chair - N/A
Please find their statements here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Event: Moving Against the Current: Case Studies in Furthering Gender Equality in Challenging Spaces
Date: Tuesday, November 19
Time: 12:10 - 1:10 PM
Location: Jerome Green 105
Description: While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality, advancing women and LGBTQ rights continues to be a challenge in many countries. Join us for a discussion with leaders in the gender equality space from China, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea about strategies they've effectively used to achieve justice, and challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. No registration necessary.
Event: Migration Symposium 2019: Statelessness and Belonging in a Globalized World
Date: Wednesday, November 20
Time: 1:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: SIPA 15th Floor, Kellogg Center
Description: The SIPA Migration Working Group is using the occasion of its annual Migration Symposium on November 20, 2019 to convene students, individuals personally affected by statelessness, policymakers, scholars and other professionals to examine the theme, understanding statelessness in our era: how stateless population is represented in our state-centric, citizen-focused international system and the sense of belonging in times when human mobility is constantly present in our social, economic and political interactions. The conversation will address the historic understanding of statelessness, different regional perspectives, approaches, and solutions. In addition and crucial to this understanding, civil society’s approach to raise awareness and advocacy strategies. Registration available through this link.
 Event: Economics and Feminism: an Evening with Mercedes D'Alessandro
Date: Thursday, November 21
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: IAB 1302
Description: Economics and feminism were for a long time two disconnected fields, but not anymore. Thanks to the work of strong voices like Mercedes D’Alessandro, academia, and public spheres are becoming aware of systemic exclusions and biased assumptions. Mercedes created Economia Femini(s)ta, a digital platform that is raising awareness about gender inequality through the dissemination of information, statistics, academic content and creative production directed at the general public. Forget your econ classes and discover what economics has to do with you! Join us for a conversation with this wonderful innovative economist, moderated by another fierce geek feminist and Columbia Alumna, Susana Martínez Restrepo. Registration available through this link.
Event: "I Am A _______": Voices from the Movement, 2019 Intersectionality Conference
Date: Friday, November 22
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Location: SIPA 15th Floor, Kellogg Center
Description: The annual SIPA Intersectionality Conference engages policymakers, scholars, advocates, organizers, activists, and students to discuss the complex ways that gender, race, class, immigration status, sexual orientation, and other identities further perpetuate power inequities in the everyday life of women of color, particularly black women. The conference aims to amplify the voices of marginalized communities and highlight issues that are oftentimes under-studied and underreported in mainstream channels. Registration available through this link.
What We're Reading
US has world's highest rate of children in detention
The Xinjiang Papers expose China's organization of mass detention of ethnic minorities
Gambia files ICJ case against Myanmar for Rohingya genocide
ICC investigates UK troops for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan (Looking at you U.S.!)
Hong Kong- the latest here or to get caught up
US position shift on Israeli settlements also more here on Palestinian reaction
"Trump is not the rupture, he's the culmination of US policy."- Noura Erakat (true in many ways!)
~Call To Action~
Call in to your congress person before Nov 21st to advocate for defunding U.S. racist immigration policy by cutting budgets for ICE #DefundHate
Find info here: https://defundhate.indivisible.org/?akid=56031.1192670.vzaSOS&rd=1&t=9&utm_medium=link1&utm_source=email
- Thanks for all those who participated in the call the action to block Rodney Reed's execution in Texas! Momentary Victory there!
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