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Date: November 6, 2019
Subject: Human Rights Working Group- 11/7-ELECTIONS are coming



Good Morning HRWG! Elections & More

Dears! Hello!
Hope all the U.S. hrwg-ers exercised your right to vote yesterday. Don't take that for granted. I could go on and on about something I am sure butlet's cut to the chase: 

ELECTIONS Timeline
11/8 Board Applications Open 
11/15 Applications Close
11/18-22: Voting/Campaigning* *Optional* 
11/22 @ Midnight: Polls Close


Election Application Link To Go Out this Friday.
-Look out for a separate email-


Board Positions **
Co-Presidents or President & VP (2 people)
Treasurer (1)
Communications (1)
Event Coordinator (1)
Advocacy/Outreach Coordinator (1)
**(These can be Flexible and Revised by the newly elected board through an amendment to the HRWG constitution)

If you have questions regarding elections please reach out to any of our current board members- especially our fearless Co-Prez leaders 
Contact for 2019 Board:
Co-Presidents: Mariana (
mcr2198@columbia.edu) & Jazzy (jsr2191@columbia.edu)
Treasurer: Caitlyn (cp2981@columbia.edu)
Event Coordinator: Morgan (mnn2116)
Advocacy/Outreach: Bethany (
bmw2165@columbia.edu)

Yours in love, rights & solidarity, 
HRWG board
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UPCOMING EVENTS
 

Menstrual Health in Emergencies, Thurs Nov 7
1pm, IAB 402B. Lunch will be served. 


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HRHP Professional Development Session
RSVP
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Trans Awareness 
Check out this Clothing Swap with Columbia College on Fri, Nov 8. 

Transgender Day of Remembrance - Nov 20th- 
So many events coming up for this around the city!
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Prison Industrial Complex Abolition 101, Sun. Nov 24th
Register on Eventbrite
Join Critical Resistance NYC to discuss what Prison Industrial Complex abolition means, the relationship between the carceral state, racial capitalism, and PIC abolition, and how an abolitionist vision and framework is essential to organizing.
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 * November in the U.S. is also Native American Heritage Month (not as Trump's White House has proclaimed)*

 

**Call to Action**

STOP THE EXECUTION OF RODNEY REED  BEFORE NOV 20!

What We're Reading

 

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EVENT

Professional Development Workshop for Human Rights Careers

Monday, November 11, 2019
1:00pm - 2:00pm
IAB 409, 420 West 118th Street, New York, New York 10027, United States
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Please join us for a PD workshop for students interested in pursuing a human rights career post-SIPA!

Iain Levine has more than 35 years of experience in international humanitarian and human rights work with Save the Children, UNICEF, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. In the late 1990s, Levine worked as Amnesty International's representative at the United Nations where he was responsible for driving the organization's advocacy agenda with the UN system at a time of enormous change, particularly at the Security Council. Levine also spent 16 years as deputy executive director for program at Human Rights Watch, where he oversaw the organization's research and reporting work in some 90 countries around the world.

Priyanka Motaparthy is the Director of the Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict, and Human Rights Project. Motaparthy joins the Human Rights Institute after nine years at Human Rights Watch, where she held various positions in the Middle East, Women's Rights, Children's Rights, and Emergencies divisions, including most recently as the acting director of the Emergencies division, leading work on armed conflict, human rights crises, and security forces abuses. She has extensive experience documenting human rights violations and mass atrocities globally, and has published investigations into detention-related abuses and potential war crimes in Syria; laws of war violations in Yemen; and sexual and gender-based violence in South Sudan as well as during the Rohingya crisis. Motaparthy has worked throughout the Middle East and spent four years living in Cairo, building relationships and partnerships across the region. She is a regular media commentator and her writing has appeared in outlets including CNN, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and the New Yorker online. Motaparthy received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and her B.A. with Honors in Literature and Economics from Brown University. She speaks Arabic and Telugu.

Registration priority is for HRHP students.

RSVP is required to attend this workshop.

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