News: Advocates

2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique of Reconoci.do in the Dominican Republic recently participated in a number of public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas.

This week we are pleased to introduce you to the following three participants in the 2024-25 Human Rights Advocates Program at ISHR: Wanja Ngure of UHAI EASHRI in Kenya, Kutlwano Magashula of The Other Foundation in South Africa, and Kathia Carrillo of Comunes in Peru.

This week meet Connex Khomba (Malawi) of The Ivy Foundation (Malawi) and Gustavo Miranda Countinho (Brazil) of the International Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Association - Latin America and the Caribbean.

This week we are featuring video presentations with Erick Luwongo of HakiMadini in Tanzania and Bojana Jokic of Montenegro.

On March 31st, two extraordinary women, part of the Human Rights Advocates Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) presented their work at Columbia. 

2024-25 Advocate Adija Adamu sat down with ISHR to talk about her work as Africa Grants Manager at the International Indigenous Women's Forum.

2014 Advocate Sandra Creamer has been appointed CEO of the Australian Women’s Health Alliance, a national collective that works to respect and amplify the voices of all women and fight for positive change.

2024-25 Advocate Thehoya Dy, the head of the anti-trafficking unit at Center for the Alliance of Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia, was interviewed by Radio Free Asia about the pervasiveness of online scams in Cambodia. 

Learn about Thehoya Dy, the Head of the Anti-Human Trafficking and Migration Unit at the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) in Cambodia.

HRAP arranged a lunch at Faculty House in late February for the advocates and their faculty mentors to meet one another in an intimate setting and to discuss their work while looking for potential areas of synergy.

During the last week of February, HRAP participants visited DC for networking meetings with the State Department, RFK Human Rights, the National Endowment for Democracy, Amnesty International-USA, Free the Slaves, Human Rights Campaign, Vital Voices, Washington Office on Latin America, and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable.

On February 11th, 30 students, alumni and faculty attended “A Conversation with Human Rights Advocates on the Current State of LGBTQI+ Rights Around the World” on the Morningside Campus.