ISHR congratulates the winners of the 2024 Human Rights Essay Contest.
Graduate Winners
Kathryn McCaughey (Human Rights Studies M.A.)
"The Digital Patriarchy: How Tinder Facilitates Gender-Based Violence"
Tanya Tandon (Human Rights Studies M.A.)
"Vanishing Women into the Shadows of Saffron"
Undergraduate Winners
Claudia Sachs (Columbia University School of General Studies)
"A Looming Crisis: Does International Human Rights Law Address the Status and Protection of Climate Refugees?"
Josephine Koch (Columbia University School of General Studies)
"Questioning the 'Collective Good': Techno-Solutionism, Congolese Cobalt, and the Invisibilization of Sacrifice"