2025 Human Rights Essay Contest Winners

April 18, 2025

Graduate Winners

  • Sara Occhetta (Human Rights Studies M.A.) 
    "What are the international human rights implications of Italy’s detention centers for “irregular migrants” in Albania?"
     
  • Danielle Burns (Human Rights Studies M.A.) 
    "Black Lives Matter Too: An Analysis on the US’ Legal Obligation to Protect Black Lives Against the Police’s Use of Excessive Force"

Undergraduate Winners

  • Josephine Koch (Columbia University, School of General Studies)
    "Layered borderization / Blood borders: Territorializing land, body, and identity"
     
  • Mukudzeiishe Madzivire (Columbia University, Columbia College) 
    "The Minimum Core in Action"