News

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

2022-23 Advocate Sharma Aurélien discussed the alarming increase in sexual violence and domestic abuse in Haiti in a recent opinion piece in the Miami Herald.

Friday, January 20, 2023

ISHR congratulates 1999 HRAP Advocate Delphine Djiraibé of Chad on winning the 2023 Martin Ennals Award. Delphine shares the award with jailed Kashmiri rights activist Khurram Parvez and Feliciano Reyna, a rights activist from Venezuela.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) is open for applications to the Fall 2023 program.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Join ISHR in welcoming the 2022-23 HRAP cohort to Columbia University! Ten advocates working on issues including LGBTQI+ rights, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, citizenship, migration, women's rights, and environmental justice have been attending skill-based workshops this fall. In the spring, they will join us on campus for the continuation of HRAP which will include participating in academic courses, networking with the human rights community in NYC and DC, and sharing their work with students at Columbia and other universities.

Friday, November 11, 2022

2016 Advocate Aehshatou Manu is at COP 27 in Egypt. She participated in a panel discussion on the impact of climate change on Indigenous Women. She shared the following with ISHR about the panel: “We focused on using traditional knowledge to adapt and mitigate the impact of climate change in our communities.” Earlier in the day, she spoke at another event on the impact of climate change in Africa and proposed some mitigation strategies.