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The 2025 International Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy was completed on 6 June 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025

The 2025 immersion Program (27 May to 6 June 2025) was successfully completed on June 6th.

Grandmother Clara Soaring Hawk, Ambassador of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, offered an opening ceremony.

Congratulations to Students Awarded Honors and Prizes
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights congratulates the following human rights students who received departmental honors and prizes: 

Phi Beta Kappa Inductees 

Luna Sadoun, General Studies

Makayla Gubbay, General Studies

Emelie Beckman, General Studies

ISHR hosts End of Year Event to honor student accomplishments and celebrate graduates
Thursday, May 29, 2025

On Thursday, May 1, 2025, ISHR hosted an event for its graduating students. Faculty, staff, returning and graduating students enjoyed an evening celebrating student accomplishments and were treated to special performances by graduating students. ISHR’s Executive Director, Joseph Slaughter, gave the opening remarks and Gergana Halpern, Deputy Director introduced the graduating class.  

ISHR Congratulates the 2024-25 HRAP Cohort
Thursday, May 29, 2025

On May 5, ISHR hosted a farewell luncheon for the 2024-25 Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) cohort at Faculty House. The chair of the ISHR faculty advisory board, Prof. Andrew J. Nathan, presented the advocates with their Certificates of Participation. Selected by the cohort to speak on their behalf, Connex Khomba spoke about how they were going to apply what they had gained from HRAP to their work. CU Law Professor Suzanne Goldberg who served as a faculty mentor to the cohort highlighted how the advocates enriched academic life at Columbia. Prof.

Featured Speaker At WorldPride 2025 Conference Is 2014 Advocate
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

2014 Advocate Esther Adhiambo, the Executive Director of the Initiative for Equality and Non-Discrimination in Kenya, will be sharing critical insights on the state of LGBTQ+ rights in Africa at the WorldPride 2025 Human Rights Conference in Washington, D.C.

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