News: Advocates

2022-23 Advocate Jade Jacobs-Wort sat down with HRAP work-study student Victor Jandres Rivera to talk about their work as a human rights advocate. 

The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) is now open for applications to the Fall 2024 program. 

2022-23 Advocate Dayana Blanco Quiroga sat down with HRAP work-study student Victor Jandres Rivera to talk about their work as a human rights advocate.

The Human Rights Advocates Program's 2022-23 Annual Program Report is now available.

Democracy Now! interviewed 2017 Advocate Pepe Onziema of Sexual Minorities Uganda about the Anti-LGBT Law recently signed by Ugandan President Museveni.

2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota sat down with HRAP work-study student Victor Jandres Rivera to talk about their work as a human rights advocate.

The Fundación Pueblos de Montaña of Bolivia, in cooperation with the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), organized a “Seminar on Drafting Complaints and Using United Nations Procedures Against Human Rights Violations”.

The  Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council (WGSS) at Columbia University invited 2022-23 Advocate Jade Jacobs-Wort of South Africa and Stephanie V. Grepo, Director of Capacity Building at ISHR, to speak at their May meeting.

ISHR celebrated the conclusion of the 2022-23 HRAP with a farewell lunch for the 10 advocates who completed the six-month program on May 1st.

SIPA alum Ana Cutter Patel returned to Columbia University in her new role as the US representative of Front Line Defenders (FLD), an international human rights organization founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk.

Advocate Ana Maria Belique is currently participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). She is the Founder member of the reconoci.do movement in the Dominican Republic.

At a side event during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota moderated a discussion with Indigenous women including fellow HRAP participant Dayana Blanco Quiroga.