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The Institute for the Study of Human Rights congratulates the following human rights students who received departmental honors and prizes.

On Thursday, April 27, 2023, ISHR hosted a celebratory event for its graduating students.

ISHR celebrated the conclusion of the 2022-23 HRAP with a farewell lunch for the 10 advocates who completed the six-month program on May 1st.

SIPA alum Ana Cutter Patel returned to Columbia University in her new role as the US representative of Front Line Defenders (FLD), an international human rights organization founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk.

ISHR congratulates the winners of the 2023 Human Rights Essay Contest. 

Advocate Ana Maria Belique is currently participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). She is the Founder member of the reconoci.do movement in the Dominican Republic.

At a side event during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota moderated a discussion with Indigenous women including fellow HRAP participant Dayana Blanco Quiroga.

Claire Choi shares her experience as an Undergraduate Human Rights Major student so far.

Advocate Marine Kapanadze is currently participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). She is the Civil and Political Rights Program Director at the Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) in Georgia.

Ana María Belique, a participant in the 2022-23 Human Rights Advocates Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, spoke to Professor Jo Becker’s Human Rights Skills and Advocacy class on April 14th.

During the last week of March, the participants in the 2022-23 Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) visited Washington, D.C.