Four 2025-26 advocates were invited by the Bond Center for African Education to speak at Teachers College.
Current and past advocates took part in the HRAP alumni study group in the fall of 2025.
ISHR is pleased to announce that the 2025-26 cohort of the Human Rights Advocates Program has arrived at Columbia University for the in-person portion of the program.
ISHR is proud to announce that 2025-26 Advocate Onesmo Olengurumwa has been named one of three finalists for the post of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
ISHR is proud to announce that Leyla Bilalova, Human Rights Studies M.A. ‘26, was awarded the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis International Fellowship for her superior academic accomplishments.
On International Migrants Day, 18 December, 2018 Advocate Marijana Savic (center, back row), the Executive Director of NGO Atina welcomed H.E. Anne Lugon-Moulin, the Swiss Ambassador to Serbia, to a conversation about power, protection, and whose voices shape migration policies.
ISHR students, faculty, and deputy director attended the Human Rights Education Forum: Unleashing Human Rights, held in Budapest from December 8-11th.
M.A. Human Rights Studies graduate, Johanna Wassong, shares her experience in the program and the work she is currently doing.
The Templeton Freedom Award was given to 2022-23 Advocate Mari Kapanadze, the executive director of Georgia’s Future Academy, for her organization’s efforts with nationwide youth mobilization, election observation, and civic education work under increasingly repressive conditions in Georgia.
The Incite Institute at Columbia University awarded the Hard Questions Grant to Dr. Shourideh C. Molavi, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for her project “Visual and Spatial Methods in Human Rights Research.”
