Avner Gvaryahu, Human Rights Studies M.A. ‘17, is the recipient of the 2025 New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award, a recognition that highlights his courageous leadership and unwavering commitment to justice.
2025-26 Advocate Christopher Rutledge was recently interviewed about global mining giant Anglo American's exit from the country.
Read our interview with Katrina Machetta who is a student at Columbia College, Class of 2026.
On Thursday, October 30th, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights hosted a conversation with H.E. Ambassador Jürg Lauber, President of the Human Rights Council and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations in Geneva.
ISHR is sorry to report that 2016 Advocate Mulshid Eleas Muwonge, Jr., of Uganda died in October 2025.
On October 21, ISHR and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law co-hosted the 2nd Annual HRAP Memorial Lecture, "The Struggle for the Realization of the Principle of 'Nunca Mas' in the Life and Legacy of Felipe Michelini.”
On Friday, October 10, 2025, ISHR hosted a training titled "Community Engagement for Human Rights Practitioners."
On Friday, October 17, two ISHR students presented at the 2025 Columbia Undergraduate Research Symposium.
2004 Advocate Lilian Keene Mugerwa shared a reflection about her experience in the Human Rights Advocates Program.
Congratulations to 2022-23 Advocate Antonia Moreira who was recently recognized as one of this year's Innovators Under 35 by MIT's Technology Review - Brazil.
Congratulations to 1993 Advocate Kutjim Çashku, founder and executive director of the International Human Rights Film Festival Albania, on the festival’s 20th anniversary.
Carly Sandstrom graduated from the Human Rights Studies M.A. (HRSMA) program in 2024. She shares her experience during her time as a student at Columbia.