The second in ISHR's interviews with the participants in the 2023-24 HRAP is Samira Asghari, a consultant with Equality League.
First up in ISHR's interviews with the participants in the 2023-24 HRAP is Andrea Tock, the Director of Learning and Impact at the Women's Justice Initiative in Guatemala.
In honor of HRAP’s 35th anniversary, ISHR has asked Columbia University alumni to share their recollections of the program. The second alumnus to be featured is Rose Anderson who earned the HRSMA from ISHR in 2014.
During the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March (CSW68), 2023-24 Advocate Esther Kimiri of the Zamara Foundation in Kenya spoke at the session "Leaking through the Cracks: Unprotected by the Social Systems."
2022-23 Advocate Antonia Moreira is featured on a recent podcast from Harvard University.
Samuel Matsikure of Aidsfonds addressed the House of Representatives of the Netherlands on March 19th.
In honor of HRAP’s 35th anniversary, ISHR has asked Columbia University alumni to share their recollections of the program. The first alumnus to be featured is Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez who earned the HRSMA from ISHR in 2015.
2023-24 Advocate Andrea Tock, who is the Director of Learning and Impact at the Women’s Justice Initiative in Guatemala, participated in the panel discussion titled "Feminist Grassroots Justice: Building Power, Shaping Change" at the Ford Foundation on March 13th, 2024.
2010 Advocate Dr. Agnes Atim Apea visited ISHR on March 18th while she was in NYC with the Ugandan delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
On March 8th, 2024, International Women’s Day, Elsa Stamatopoulou, Director of ISHR’s Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York City Bar Association, on the occasion of the 5th International Law Conference on the Status of Women.
On Monday, February 26th, 2016 Advocate Jeffrey Walimba Wambaya, a program manager at ISHTAR MSM in Kenya, met with participants in the current Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR).
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights and its Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program are committed to spreading knowledge about the rights of Indigenous Peoples within Columbia and around the world.