Elsa Stamatopoulou

Elsa Stamatopoulou is the Director, Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program, ISHR. She joined Columbia University in 2011 after a 31-year service at the United Nations (in Vienna, Geneva and New York) with some 22 years dedicated to human rights, in addition to eigth years exclusively devoted to Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Indigenous issues were part of her portfolio since 1983 and she became the first Chief of the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2003. In 2011, she taught the first-ever course at Columbia on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, the first course on cultural rights (2016) and is the first Director of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia. In 2013 she established the International Summer program on Indigenous Peoples Rights and Policy. She has written extensively on human rights, especially indigenous and cultural rights

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Examine how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, and how they have been re-shaping and gradually decolonizing these systems at international and national levels. Indigenous Peoples, numbering more than 476 million in some 90 countries and about 5000 groups and [...]

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