HRSMA Alumna Ishita Petkar joins a panel of alumni at the 10th installment of GSAS SynThesis competition where they shared their experience and offered advice to current students.
ISHR is delighted to announce that Tatiana Kotlyarenko, ’07 Human Rights Studies M.A. received the GSAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement.
ISHR wishes to congratulate 2023-24 Advocate Amisha Adhikari who graduated from Georgetown Law in May of 2026.
Read our conversation with 2026 Research Award Winner Rebeca Lopez-Anzures
2025-26 Advocate Christopher Rutledge's opinion article on the defining contradictions of South Africa’s constitutional democracy has been published by Independent Online (IOL).
2023-24 Advocates Andrea Tock of Guatemala and David Samuel Mejía travelled to Zimbabwe through NYU's Legal Empowerment Learning Exchange Lab to work with community members on using Participatory Action Research and Legal Empowerment tools to make their voices heard and their rights respected.
This is the second installment in a series of profiles of the Advocates in our 2025-2026 cohort, written in their own voices. This time we have Christopher Rutledge, Executive Director of MACUA-WAMUA Advice Office (MWAO), a South African non-profit established to support mining-affected communities.
On Monday, May 4, 2026, the ISHR community gathered to mark the end of the academic year and celebrate graduating human rights students. Faculty, staff, students and their families were treated to a special evening that featured student performances and celebrated the hard work and accomplishments of ISHR’s graduating class.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights congratulates the human rights students who received departmental honors and prizes in 2026. Read more below.
The 2025-26 Advocates sat down to share their work with viewers of the HRAP YouTube Channel.
This is the first in a series of profiles of the Advocates in our 2025-2026 cohort, written in their own voices. We begin with Maiya Shang, Asia Pacific Grants Coordinator at the International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI), who has spent this spring as an HRAP Advocate at Columbia while attending her first session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
ISHR is delighted to announce that two undergraduate human rights students were selected for the 2026 Truman Scholarship.