Sweater Weather?!?! Hope you are finding safe ways to enjoy fall. Wishing those recognizing Yom Kippur a meaningful fast. HRHP stands with those outraged by the grand jury decision regarding the murder of Breonna Taylor.
Scholars and practitioners will discuss key barriers to voting rights and various tactics for ensuring the right vote. What are the main barriers to voting rights in the United States? What are some key successes and tactics for ensuring the right to vote?
For Zoom login information, please register here: http://bit.ly/election_equalright
Moderator: Liz Jaff, President and Co-Founder, Be a Hero
Panelists:
-Sylvia Albert, Director of Voting and Elections, Common Cause
-Adriel Cepeda, Senior Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union - Confirmed
-Ruth Greenwood - Lecturer in law; Co-Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, Harvard University
-Fred McBride - Redistricting and Voting Rights Policy Specialist, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
-Lisa Schur, Director, Program for Disability Research, Rutgers
For speakers bios and more detail about the series, go to the following link: http://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/events/elections-and-human-rights-series-ensuring-equal-right-vote
Come join the HRHP PAs for an informal chat over lunch! For this month, we want to check-in with students about the first month of class, as well as get feedback, and discuss the professional development poll results.
For 25 years the aid sector has endlessly tried to reform itself. But change has not come easily. Will new pressures and operating models brought on by the post-COVID landscape and #BLM be enough to push through reforms that had been slow to take hold until now?
Jessica Alexander is a humanitarian aid professional with nearly 20 years experience in operations, evaluation and policy. Her career includes global deployments spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. She currently teaches humanitarian affairs at numerous global universities and is the editor of The New Humanitarian’s Rethinking Humanitarianism series. She has authored various policy papers, mainstream articles and a book, Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid. She also teaches a SIPA course titled Accountability in Humanitarian Assistance in the spring semester.
The New Humanitarian series can be found: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/in-depth/Rethinking-humanitarianism
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Dawnland Virtual Film Screening & Discussion,
Thursday, Oct 1, 4:00-5:30pm. Register here.
Dawnland is a documentary about cultural survival and stolen children. For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
External Online Symposium: Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures (UMASS Boston), Weds Oct 7 to Fri Oct 9. Tickets on Eventbrite
This symposium aims to call attention not only to the climate crisis, but also to what is at stake in the kinds of responses to it that are proposed. Many of the proposed “fixes” are rooted in the same political economic paradigms and worldviews that created the current climate and ecological crises in the first place; they often not only pose great environmental risks themselves, but also threaten to gravely deepen existing gender, racial and global inequalities. However, there are also encouraging signs that many activists and researchers are approaching climate breakdown with a global justice perspective. Our goal is to highlight, among them, the critically important work being done by diverse feminist thinkers, from feminist political economists and ecologists to indigenous and racial justice activists, who outline the sorts of radical solutions that the crisis demands, proposing fundamental shifts in the dominant global economic model. Throughout, we explore how intersectional feminist analysis, with an emphasis on global justice, can lead to the fundamental transformations urgently needed to forestall climate catastrophe.
The symposium, Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures, will take place over three consecutive days in five sessions. You can register for the entire symposium here, or for individual panels.
Resources on The Rohingya at The New Humanitarian
August 2020 marked 3 years since the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The New Humanitarian has compiled 10 years of reporting into this learning resource.
Columbia Neighbors Food Relief Fund. Mutual Aid has become ever more critical during COVID-19. Columbia Neighbors Food Relief Fund assists people experiencing food insecurity in Harlem, Morningside Heights, Washington Heights, and Inwood. Find out more here about opportunities to donate and volunteer.
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Professor Elazar Bakan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
