News: Advocates

Aviâja Egede Lynge received the prestigious Ebbe Munck Award at a ceremony in Copenhagen at the Palace and in the presence of the Queen.

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia, a co-founder of The Abolition Institute, and his colleagues led a high-profile US delegation on a fact-finding mission to Mauritania from October 29 to November 7, 2023.

2016 Advocate Samuel Matsikure was honored with the 2023 African Feather of the Year Award at Africa's biggest queer awards ceremony which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

2017 Advocate Lenny Emson, the president of EuroPride and the Executive Director of Transgender Europe, reported: “It’s a great honour to lead the opening ceremony of the 16th National LGBTQI conference of Ukraine."

Carlos Asúnsolo Morales was a participant in the 2017 Human Rights Advocates Program.

Dr. Peter Gayflor Mulbah was a participant in the 2008 Human Rights Advocates Program.

Advocate Ana Maria Belique discussed efforts to forge a protective legal framework for human rights activism in light of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.

2011 Advocate Elvis Mbembe Binda has been appointed Dean of the School of Law of the University of Rwanda.

On September 19th, Stephanie Grepo of ISHR attended a side event featuring 1996 Advocate Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, the Founder and ED of Nyaka in Uganda, as the keynote speaker.

2016 Advocate Aehshatou Manu and her colleagues from the African Indigenous Women Organization Central African Network (AIWO-CAN) continue their mission to eradicate gender-based violence. 

2019 Advocate Mariano Ruiz of Argentina has founded Derechos Humanos y Diversidad Asociación Civil, an NGO that will offer communication skills training to LGBTIQ grassroots advocates in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

2010 Advocate Gisèle Ngungua Sangua has been named the Provincial Minister of Gender, Women and Children of Haut-Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo.