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.
2021-22 Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) Fellow, Mphathisi Ndlovu, recently published a book he co-edited.
2018 Advocate Marijana Savic, the executive director of Atina NGO in Serbia, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (UNVTF).
Thinking about taking a summer course? Professor Tim Wyman-McCarthy is sharing a few highlights of the class he will be teaching this summer.
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.
