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.
On International Migrants Day, 18 December, 2018 Advocate Marijana Savic (center, back row), the Executive Director of NGO Atina welcomed H.E. Anne Lugon-Moulin, the Swiss Ambassador to Serbia, to a conversation about power, protection, and whose voices shape migration policies.
The Templeton Freedom Award was given to 2022-23 Advocate Mari Kapanadze, the executive director of Georgia’s Future Academy, for her organization’s efforts with nationwide youth mobilization, election observation, and civic education work under increasingly repressive conditions in Georgia.
