Congratulations to Haley Chung (CC'23) and Daisy Nunez Torres (CC'26), who have been selected for the 2026–2027 Fulbright U.S. Student Grants. Fulbright awards grants for students to conduct independent research, study, and teach in over 160 countries.
Monisha Gunaskera (CC'26), a Human Rights major, has been selected to participate in the New York City Urban Fellows Program. This program is a nine-month fellowship in which the fellow works at the mayoral office and city agencies and explores current urban issues affecting public policy.
On May 19, 2026, Sarayu Bethamcherla, human rights major graduate, delivered a speech during the Columbia College Class Day. Sarayu is the President of the Columbia College Student Council.
ISHR is excited to announce that the Human Rights Advocates Program's 2025-26 Annual Program Report is now available!
HRSMA Alumna Ishita Petkar joins a panel of alumni at the 10th installment of GSAS SynThesis competition where they shared their experience and offered advice to current students.
ISHR is delighted to announce that Tatiana Kotlyarenko, ’07 Human Rights Studies M.A. received the GSAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement.
ISHR wishes to congratulate 2023-24 Advocate Amisha Adhikari who graduated from Georgetown Law in May of 2026.
Read our conversation with 2026 Research Award Winner Rebeca Lopez-Anzures
2025-26 Advocate Christopher Rutledge's opinion article on the defining contradictions of South Africa’s constitutional democracy has been published by Independent Online (IOL).
2023-24 Advocates Andrea Tock of Guatemala and David Samuel Mejía travelled to Zimbabwe through NYU's Legal Empowerment Learning Exchange Lab to work with community members on using Participatory Action Research and Legal Empowerment tools to make their voices heard and their rights respected.
This is the second installment in a series of profiles of the Advocates in our 2025-2026 cohort, written in their own voices. This time we have Christopher Rutledge, Executive Director of MACUA-WAMUA Advice Office (MWAO), a South African non-profit established to support mining-affected communities.
On Monday, May 4, 2026, the ISHR community gathered to mark the end of the academic year and celebrate graduating human rights students. Faculty, staff, students and their families were treated to a special evening that featured student performances and celebrated the hard work and accomplishments of ISHR’s graduating class.