Happy Monday! Spring comes!! Take a walk when you have a chance and observe how many flowers have already blossomed!
This Tuesday, March 23rd, HRHP will host the concentration networking event from 1-2 pm. Come and join the HRHP alumni for a nice talk! Register this event below.
For international students who need to apply for OPT/CPT, plan accordingly and submit the application as soon as possible. Info here.
May graduate students' internship requirements are on OCS Newsletter. Please schedule an appointment with OCS if you have questions about your internship requirements.
For students who will access campus buildings this semester, remember to do the Spring term COVID regular testing. Info here.
We wish you have a wonderful week. Feel free to contact us with any questions you have. :)
Very best,
Team HRHP - Michelle, Roni, Xin
Upcoming Events
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Career Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy
Are you interested in working in Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy (HRHP) post-graduation? Whether you are a first-year or second-year student, come and learn more about working in HRHP industries after graduation. At the Career Series, you will meet with SIPA alumni and other professionals to discover various career paths within the HRHP concentration.
The HRHP Career Series will host four (4) breakout rooms. The categories/speakers are as follows:
Financing Human Rights and Humanitarianism
Paige Granger | The Rockefeller Foundation
Ayesha Marra | The Legal Aid Society
Emiliano Segura | HIAS
Organizational Leadership in HRHP
Carrie O’Neil | Vantage Partners
Esther Waters-Crane | United Nations OCHA
Service Provision
Lydia Allen | North Virginia Family Services
Tabatha Thompson | United States Institute of Peace
Claire Whitney | International Medical Corps
Research, Analyst, and Policy Positions
Katherine Haver | NYC Administration for Children’s Services
Amir Khouzam | International Committee of the Red Cross
Mariah Richardson | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Pushkar Sharma | UN Women
Students will pre-register for their preferred breakout session. If your preference changes, you may notify the event host(s) at the event after introductions. Students will be emailed a finalized list of alumni speakers and their employers on the day of the event.
Please sign into the event on time (early is better!) so event hosts may facilitate the break-out room assignments and avoid delays.
YOUR REGISTRATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL YOU FILL OUT THIS GOOGLE FORM: https://forms.gle/Rs1kgJQeh4fbLMWF9
**THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE RECORDED**
ABOUT THE CAREER SERIES: The New York City Career Series has been reimagined! No longer location-bound, the virtual Career Series welcomes alumni and professionals from around the globe to share their career journey with students. The New York City Career (NYC) Series was established by the Office of Career Services (OCS) in 2005. Its purpose is to provide a forum for SIPA students in which they can learn about career trends from professionals in their fields of interest, as well as make important connections for jobs, internships, and informational interviews.
As the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic ends and we enter year two, join us to reflect on its gendered dimensions including impacts on labor market inequalities, care work, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. In addition to discussing these troubling effects reverberated through society by the ongoing crisis, panelists will discuss opportunities for advocacy and policy change going forward. This event will include an hour long panel moderated by Yasmine Ergas, followed by 30 minutes for Q&A. We are honored to be joined by the following panelists:
Khara Jabola-Carolus is the Executive Director of the Hawai╩╗i State Commission on the Status of Women, a feminist government agency in the United States dedicated to the liberation of women and non-binary people. Khara is the only millennial to direct a statewide government agency in Hawai╩╗i. Previously, she led the Hawai╩╗i Coalition for Immigrant Rights where she passed landmark legislation that extended driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Hawai╩╗i with a specialization in Native Hawaiian law and has performed fellowships at the United States Senate, Hawai╩╗i Supreme Court, and Committee to Protect Journalists. Her family is from Laguna, Philippines. Read the Hawai╩╗i State Commission on the Status of Women's Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 here: https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4.13.20-Final-Cover-D2-Feminist-Economic-Recovery-D1.pdf
Terry McGovern currently serves as Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and the Director of the Program on Global Health Justice and Governance at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Ms. McGovern founded the HIV Law Project in 1989 where she served as its executive director until 1999. Ms. McGovern successfully litigated numerous cases against the federal, state and local governments including S.P. v. Sullivan which forced the Social Security Administration to expand HIV-related disability criteria so that women and other excluded individuals could qualify for Medicaid and social security, and T.N. v. FDA, which eliminated a 1977 FDA guideline restricting the participation of women of childbearing potential in early phases of clinical trials. As a member of the National Task Force on the Development of HIV/AIDS Drugs, she authored the 2001 federal regulation authorizing the FDA to halt any clinical trial for a life threatening disease that excludes women. From 2006 until 2012, she was Senior Program Officer in the Gender, Rights and Equality Unit of the Ford Foundation. Her research focuses on health and human rights, sexual and reproductive rights and health, gender justice, and environmental justice, with publications appearing in journals including Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Health and Human Rights, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. Ms. McGovern recently co-edited Women and Girls Rising: Rights, Progress and Resistance: A Global Anthology. She has served on the Standing Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing and the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, and currently serves as a member of the UNFPA Global Advisory Council and the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference Group.
Susana Martínez-Restrepo is the Cofounder and Executive Director of CoreWoman and a Researcher at Fedesarrollo, the leading Think Tank in Colombia and third in Latin America. Her expertise includes the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of education and labor market and entrepreneurship policies with a gender focus, and particularly about women's economic empowerment and gender-based violence. She has more than 12 years of experience doing applied research and consulting for governments, foundations, grassroots organizations, and international organizations. Before joining Fedesarrollo she was Research Associate at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she led the research about poverty reduction strategies in Latin America with a gender focus. She also served as a Research Associate at the Center for Governance and Leadership in Singapore (Think Tank). Susana holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Columbia University in the city of New York, an MA in Public Policy from Sciences-Po Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris), and a BA in Political Sciences and Economics from the same university.
Mignon Duffy’s primary research interests center around care work – the work of taking care of others, including children and those who are elderly, ill or disabled. She is particularly interested in how the social organization of care intersects with gender, race, class and other systems of inequality. Her first book, Making Care Count: One Hundred Years of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work, combines quantitative, historical, and interpretive methods to analyze the emergence and organization of care work occupations in health care, education, child care, and social services. She is a co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care, which collects cutting edge research across a range of care work occupations. Duffy is also the co-chair of the Carework Network, a national organization of care work researchers and advocates. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & Society and Social Problems. Committed to connecting her research to policy, Duffy has worked in collaboration with other UMass researchers to document the care sector in Massachusetts as a tool for policymakers. Duffy is the Associate Director of the Center for Women and Work (CWW) at UMass Lowell.ÔÇ» As the Founding Director of the Emerging Scholars Program, she works to match selected undergraduate students of the FAHSS College with faculty and support them in a year-long research collaboration. In 2013, the University recognized Duffy for her dedication to engaged teaching by awarding her the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Service Learning Award. Duffy has also been involved in a number of interdisciplinary programs, including Gender Studies and Labor Studies.ÔÇ» She loves teaching research methods to sometimes reluctant students, and also enjoys teaching gender, feminist theory, and social policy courses.
Zohra Khan is UN-Women’s Senior Policy Advisor on Governance leading the Entity’s work on gender budgeting and financing for gender equality. In this role, she has provided technical assistance to over 80 countries on planning and budgeting for national gender equality plans and strategies. Ms. Khan has 20 years’ experience on gender equality and development in international and non-governmental organizations. Prior to joining UN-Women, she was Senior Policy Officer at One World Action where she conducted research on the impact of UK and EU aid and trade agreements on women's livelihoods. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Researcher in the South African Commission on Gender Equality, a body established after the first democratic elections in 1994 to promote and protect gender equality, where she advised on legal reform. Ms. Khan is leading contributor and co-editor of the book Financing for Gender Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She holds an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Natal and is a dual national of South Africa and the United Kingdom.
The IO/UNS Specialization is proud to announce that registration is open for the second year of our annual United Nations Roundtable Conversations and Networking event! This exclusive event will host nearly 25 UN staff members, and give students the opportunity to speak with them in intimate small group discussions about their work and experiences and how they contribute to the role of the United Nations to foster development, cooperation, peace, human rights, and prosperity.
This year, we mark the 20th anniversary of the Durban World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. In 2020, events in the US have sparked again a global discussion on the need to address all forms of racism the world over. Examining the norm-setting, legal, policy, and narrative-changing activities of various international organizations, the speaker series shows both successes and limitations of multilateral approaches toward combating racial discrimination and promoting social cohesion.
How has the COVID pandemic shaped global migration? Incresed border controls slowed global mobility; xenophobic fear shaped domestic policy responses around the world. The panel will explore the patterns, and consider the possible consequences, of these effects of the pandemic on migration and migrants.
Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Columbia University
Daniel Naujoks, Interim Director of International Organization and UN Studies Specialization, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs
Fiona Adamson, Reader in International Relations, SOAS, London
Discussant: Max Siegelbaum, Co-Founding Editor and Senior Reporter, Documented
A discussion with fabulous LGBTQ activists from Japan and South Korea. Learn more about how these two countries progressed with LGBTQ rights and representation and how they have moved forward to advance diversity in respective countries.
Data Protection and Privacy in the Era of Big Tech | March 22, 2021 12:10-1:10 EST
Event Info: For more than 4 billion people, the internet has become central to their political, societal, and economical participation. Facebook and Google dominate most of these primary platforms and have utilized a business model that constitutes an assault on privacy. These companies have conditioned access to their services on “consenting” to sharing of their personal data for marketing and advertising, directly countering the right to decide when and how our personal data can be shared with others.
Join Rightslink and HRI for a moderated discussion on the harms and effects of the surveillance-based business model and the necessary steps governments must take to achieve universal access and the enjoyment of human rights.
Panelists:
Moderate by Anjli Parrin: Columbia Human Rights Clinic
Tanya O’Carroll: Sum of Us & Amnesty Tech
Claudia Prettner: Amnesty Tech
RSVP Link:
Topic: New Tech & Methods in Human Rights
Time: Mar 22, 2021 12:10 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Migration Mini-grant:
Migration Working Group is providing a mini-grant of $200 to SIPA students wanting to undertake a project related to migration. We accept projects from individual or group applications (groups encouraged). The project must be related to migration, can be either international or US domestic-focused. See poster or follow the link for how to apply: http://cglink.me/2e9/r1053886
Contact us!
Professor Elazar Bakan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Are you interested in working in Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy (HRHP) post-graduation? Whether you are a first-year or second-year student, come and learn more about working in HRHP industries after graduation. At the Career Series, you will meet with SIPA alumni and other professionals to discover various career paths within the HRHP concentration.
The HRHP Career Series will host four (4) breakout rooms. The categories/speakers are as follows:
Financing Human Rights and Humanitarianism Paige Granger | The Rockefeller Foundation Ayesha Marra | The Legal Aid Society Emiliano Segura | HIAS
Organizational Leadership in HRHP Carrie O'Neil | Vantage Partners Esther Waters-Crane | United Nations OCHA
Service Provision Lydia Allen | North Virginia Family Services Tabatha Thompson | United States Institute of Peace Claire Whitney | International Medical Corps
Research, Analyst, and Policy Positions Katherine Haver | NYC Administration for Children's Services Amir Khouzam | International Committee of the Red Cross Mariah Richardson | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pushkar Sharma | UN Women
Students will pre-register for their preferred breakout session. If your preference changes, you may notify the event host(s) at the event after introductions. Students will be emailed a finalized list of alumni speakers and their employers on the day of the event.
Please sign into the event on time (early is better!) so event hosts may facilitate the break-out room assignments and avoid delays.
YOUR REGISTRATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL YOU FILL OUT THIS GOOGLE FORM: https://forms.gle/Rs1kgJQeh4fbLMWF9
**THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE RECORDED**
ABOUT THE CAREER SERIES: The New York City Career Series has been reimagined! No longer location-bound, the virtual Career Series welcomes alumni and professionals from around the globe to share their career journey with students. The New York City Career (NYC) Series was established by the Office of Career Services (OCS) in 2005. Its purpose is to provide a forum for SIPA students in which they can learn about career trends from professionals in their fields of interest, as well as make important connections for jobs, internships, and informational interviews.
As the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic ends and we enter year two, join us to reflect on its gendered dimensions including impacts on labor market inequalities, care work, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. In addition to discussing these troubling effects reverberated through society by the ongoing crisis, panelists will discuss opportunities for advocacy and policy change going forward. This event will include an hour long panel moderated by Yasmine Ergas, followed by 30 minutes for Q&A. We are honored to be joined by the following panelists:
Khara Jabola-Carolus is the Executive Director of the Hawai╩╗i State Commission on the Status of Women, a feminist government agency in the United States dedicated to the liberation of women and non-binary people. Khara is the only millennial to direct a statewide government agency in Hawai╩╗i. Previously, she led the Hawai╩╗i Coalition for Immigrant Rights where she passed landmark legislation that extended driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Hawai╩╗i with a specialization in Native Hawaiian law and has performed fellowships at the United States Senate, Hawai╩╗i Supreme Court, and Committee to Protect Journalists. Her family is from Laguna, Philippines. Read the Hawai╩╗i State Commission on the Status of Women's Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 here: https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4.13.20-Final-Cover-D2-Feminist-Economic-Recovery-D1.pdf
Terry McGovern currently serves as Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and the Director of the Program on Global Health Justice and Governance at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Ms. McGovern founded the HIV Law Project in 1989 where she served as its executive director until 1999. Ms. McGovern successfully litigated numerous cases against the federal, state and local governments including S.P. v. Sullivan which forced the Social Security Administration to expand HIV-related disability criteria so that women and other excluded individuals could qualify for Medicaid and social security, and T.N. v. FDA, which eliminated a 1977 FDA guideline restricting the participation of women of childbearing potential in early phases of clinical trials. As a member of the National Task Force on the Development of HIV/AIDS Drugs, she authored the 2001 federal regulation authorizing the FDA to halt any clinical trial for a life threatening disease that excludes women. From 2006 until 2012, she was Senior Program Officer in the Gender, Rights and Equality Unit of the Ford Foundation. Her research focuses on health and human rights, sexual and reproductive rights and health, gender justice, and environmental justice, with publications appearing in journals including Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Health and Human Rights, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. Ms. McGovern recently co-edited Women and Girls Rising: Rights, Progress and Resistance: A Global Anthology. She has served on the Standing Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing and the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, and currently serves as a member of the UNFPA Global Advisory Council and the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference Group.
Susana Martínez-Restrepo is the Cofounder and Executive Director of CoreWoman and a Researcher at Fedesarrollo, the leading Think Tank in Colombia and third in Latin America. Her expertise includes the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of education and labor market and entrepreneurship policies with a gender focus, and particularly about women's economic empowerment and gender-based violence. She has more than 12 years of experience doing applied research and consulting for governments, foundations, grassroots organizations, and international organizations. Before joining Fedesarrollo she was Research Associate at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she led the research about poverty reduction strategies in Latin America with a gender focus. She also served as a Research Associate at the Center for Governance and Leadership in Singapore (Think Tank). Susana holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Columbia University in the city of New York, an MA in Public Policy from Sciences-Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), and a BA in Political Sciences and Economics from the same university.
Mignon Duffy's primary research interests center around care work – the work of taking care of others, including children and those who are elderly, ill or disabled. She is particularly interested in how the social organization of care intersects with gender, race, class and other systems of inequality. Her first book, Making Care Count: One Hundred Years of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work, combines quantitative, historical, and interpretive methods to analyze the emergence and organization of care work occupations in health care, education, child care, and social services. She is a co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care, which collects cutting edge research across a range of care work occupations. Duffy is also the co-chair of the Carework Network, a national organization of care work researchers and advocates. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & Society and Social Problems. Committed to connecting her research to policy, Duffy has worked in collaboration with other UMass researchers to document the care sector in Massachusetts as a tool for policymakers. Duffy is the Associate Director of the Center for Women and Work (CWW) at UMass Lowell. As the Founding Director of the Emerging Scholars Program, she works to match selected undergraduate students of the FAHSS College with faculty and support them in a year-long research collaboration. In 2013, the University recognized Duffy for her dedication to engaged teaching by awarding her the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Service Learning Award. Duffy has also been involved in a number of interdisciplinary programs, including Gender Studies and Labor Studies. She loves teaching research methods to sometimes reluctant students, and also enjoys teaching gender, feminist theory, and social policy courses.
Zohra Khan is UN-Women's Senior Policy Advisor on Governance leading the Entity's work on gender budgeting and financing for gender equality. In this role, she has provided technical assistance to over 80 countries on planning and budgeting for national gender equality plans and strategies. Ms. Khan has 20 years' experience on gender equality and development in international and non-governmental organizations. Prior to joining UN-Women, she was Senior Policy Officer at One World Action where she conducted research on the impact of UK and EU aid and trade agreements on women's livelihoods. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Researcher in the South African Commission on Gender Equality, a body established after the first democratic elections in 1994 to promote and protect gender equality, where she advised on legal reform. Ms. Khan is leading contributor and co-editor of the book Financing for Gender Equality: Realizing Women's Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She holds an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Natal and is a dual national of South Africa and the United Kingdom.
A discussion with fabulous LGBTQ activists from Japan and South Korea. Learn more about how these two countries progressed with LGBTQ rights and representation and how they have moved forward to advance diversity in respective countries.
How has the COVID pandemic shaped global migration? Incresed border controls slowed global mobility; xenophobic fear shaped domestic policy responses around the world. The panel will explore the patterns, and consider the possible consequences, of these effects of the pandemic on migration and migrants.
Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Columbia University Daniel Naujoks, Interim Director of International Organization and UN Studies Specialization, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs Fiona Adamson, Reader in International Relations, SOAS, London Discussant: Max Siegelbaum, Co-Founding Editor and Senior Reporter, Documented
This year, we mark the 20th anniversary of the Durban World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. In 2020, events in the US have sparked again a global discussion on the need to address all forms of racism the world over. Examining the norm-setting, legal, policy, and narrative-changing activities of various international organizations, the speaker series shows both successes and limitations of multilateral approaches toward combating racial discrimination and promoting social cohesion.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) will share insights into how the Alliance serves as a platform for intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and works to prevent and address identity-based tensions and crises and combat stereotypes, misperceptions, discrimination and xenophobia.
