In February, 1993 Advocate Luis Felipe Polo of Peru was awarded an Honorary Doctorate during the "Sixth World Summit on Educational Globalization and Transdisciplinarity 2024," hosted by the International Federation of FINTES Specialists in Mexico City.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) welcomed the 35th cohort of the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at a reception on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law welcomed Bukeni Waruzi (left), the executive director of Free the Slaves, who gave the inaugural Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) Memorial Lecture.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University proudly announces the formation of the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) Alumni Committee.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) is pleased to welcome the 2023-24 HRAP cohort.
While they were in residence at Columbia University, several members of the 2022-23 HRAP cohort sat down to record interviews with StoryCorps which has been training the advocates in oral history for more than a decade.
During the month of December, StoryCorps is featuring an interview with 2021-22 Advocate Dominique St. Vil of Haiti.
2022-23 Advocate Antonia Moreira of Ateliê TRANSmoras is featured in OutRight International's campaign on legal gender recognition.
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.