2024 Human Rights Essay Contest Winners

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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" 

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Kathryn McCaughey (top left), Tanya Tandon (top right), Claudia Sachs (bottom left), and Josephine Koch (bottom right)