2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia joined fellow anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid, the founder of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (Mauritania), and Sean Tenner, who co-founded The Abolition Institute (USA) with Tandia, on a panel discussion at the 2025 Human Rights & Humanitarian Forum sponsored by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.
2018 Advocate Pepe Onziema spoke at the University of Paris-Nanterre (France) in April at the invitation of ADUH and STOP Homophobie.
In the recently released book Anti-Gender Human Rights: The Legal Reasoning on Bolsonaro's Administration on LGBTI+ Policies (2019-2022), 2024-25 Advocate Gustavo Coutinho analyzes how the Bolsonaro government operated a legal and symbolic offensive against the LGBTI+ movement - not by chance, targeting gender and sexuality as central targets in its cultural war.
2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique of Reconoci.do in the Dominican Republic recently participated in a number of public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas.
This week we are pleased to introduce you to the following three participants in the 2024-25 Human Rights Advocates Program at ISHR: Wanja Ngure of UHAI EASHRI in Kenya, Kutlwano Magashula of The Other Foundation in South Africa, and Kathia Carrillo of Comunes in Peru.
ISHR congratulates the winners of the 2025 Human Rights Essay Contest.
This week meet Connex Khomba (Malawi) of The Ivy Foundation (Malawi) and Gustavo Miranda Countinho (Brazil) of the International Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Association - Latin America and the Caribbean.
This week we are featuring video presentations with Erick Luwongo of HakiMadini in Tanzania and Bojana Jokic of Montenegro.
On March 31st, two extraordinary women, part of the Human Rights Advocates Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) presented their work at Columbia.
2024-25 Advocate Adija Adamu sat down with ISHR to talk about her work as Africa Grants Manager at the International Indigenous Women's Forum.
The Amicus Brief expresses profound concern that the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of Columbia alumnus Mahmoud Khalil “violates his fundamental human rights and puts the rights of many others at risk.”