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Dayana Blanco Quiroga
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

2022-23 Advocate Dayana Blanco Quiroga sat down with HRAP work-study student Victor Jandres Rivera to talk about their work as a human rights advocate. The video can be found on the HRAP YouTube Channel here.

Friday, June 2, 2023

The Human Rights Advocates Program's 2022-23 Annual Program Report is now available.

Click here to read the full report.
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Friday, June 2, 2023

Democracy Now! interviewed 2017 Advocate Pepe Onziema of Sexual Minorities Uganda about the Anti-LGBT Law recently signed by Ugandan President Museveni. Homophobia in Uganda is heavily influenced by American evangelists, who function as “exporters of hate,” notes Pepe, causing LGBTQ Ugandans to “end up as collateral damage.” The entire interview is available here.

Isabel Flota
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

2022-23 Advocate Isabel Flota sat down with HRAP work-study student Victor Jandres Rivera to talk about their work as a human rights advocate. The video can be found on the HRAP YouTube Channel here.

Monday, May 15, 2023
The Fundación Pueblos de Montaña of Bolivia, in cooperation with the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), organized a “Seminar on Drafting Complaints and Using United Nations Procedures Against Human Rights Violations”. The Seminar took place via Zoom on May 14th and was addressed to Indigenous Authorities of Bolivia. More than 40 people participated. Professor Elsa Stamatopoulou of ISHR gave the seminar and discussed it with the participants.