The 2025-26 Advocates attended a new workshop called The Courage To Be Happy led by longtime HRAP instructor Jeremiah Kyle Drake of The Riverside Church.
On the afternoon of March 27th, students at the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at NYU Law School welcomed the HRAP participants for an afternoon of conversation, alliance building and solidarity.
Two participants in Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) played central roles in a recent forum examining transnational solidarity, economic justice, and the well-being of Black women and girls from the Global South and the African diaspora.
Congratulations to 2013 Advocate Geoffrey Mayamba, the Executive Director of the Prisoners Future Foundation in Zambia. He was chosen to participate in the 2026 Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders.
The 2025–2026 cohort of the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) traveled to Washington, D.C. for a dedicated networking visit with leading human rights partners and funders.
On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights hosted its annual Winter Reception, welcoming the 2025-26 cohort of the Human Rights Advocates Program.
2016 Advocate Aeshatou Manu concludes her assignment as Senior Indigenous Fellow with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section.
Four 2025-26 advocates were invited by the Bond Center for African Education to speak at Teachers College.
Current and past advocates took part in the HRAP alumni study group in the fall of 2025.
ISHR is pleased to announce that the 2025-26 cohort of the Human Rights Advocates Program has arrived at Columbia University for the in-person portion of the program.
ISHR is proud to announce that 2025-26 Advocate Onesmo Olengurumwa has been named one of three finalists for the post of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
