The Mgrublian Center for Human Rights provides an educational experience that combines classroom and hands-on learning, activism, and research to foster in students a deeper understanding of human rights in their lives, and to prepare interested students for careers and postgraduate work in related professions. The Center hosts leading scholars and human rights activists, sponsors academic travel, internships, student-led task forces, research projects, and supports local and global campaigns, thereby advancing the cause of human rights more broadly while helping students develop the ethical commitments and leadership qualities necessary to identify, prevent, and overcome human rights abuses in today’s world.
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Losing Your Home to Russia, Twice
A story of Ukrainians who passed Russian filtration to flee occupation Iryna Bilousova’s home in Donetsk, Ukraine, destroyed by Russian artillery. Photo credit: Iryna Bilousova. By Anna Romandash “Our story began in 2014,” Iryna says, “We’re from Donetsk. We...
Preventing a Second Armenian Genocide
New York, NY – The Peacebuilding & Human Rights Institute at Columbia University will host a virtual discussion titled, “Preventing a Second Armenian Genocide: Azerbaijan Closes the Lachin Corridor and Makes Artsakh Unlivable in a Bid to Depopulate the Territory,”...
How Russia Stole Ukraine’s Christmas
With constant bombing and little electricity, upcoming holidays are not so cheery for Ukraine The Tree of Unbreakables. Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo credit: Mykola Tymchenko. By Anna Romandash Ukrainians like to go big on Christmas; in fact, they like it so much that they...