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Ifeanyi Orazulike
Alumni Highlight
Ifeanyi Orazulike
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

2011 Advocate Ifeanyi Orazulike, Executive Director of the International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH), presented at the Informal Interactive Civil Society Hearing on HIV at the United Nations in April. Ifeanyi addressed the need to reach out to prisoners and men who have sex with men (MSM).

Mary Akrami
Advocate Mary Akrami Pushes for Women's Rights at UN
Monday, March 28, 2016

2009 Advocate Mary Akrami of Afghanistan (left) was in New York for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Felipe Michelini
HRAP Alunmus Felipe Michelini meets with OAS Secretary General
Thursday, February 25, 2016

1990 Advocate Felipe Michelini of Uruguay (left) was in Washington, D.C., this month in his capacity as a member of the Trust Fund for Victims.

2015 HRAP
2015 HRAP Program Report Now Available
Thursday, February 11, 2016

The Human Rights Advocate Program's 2015 Annual Program Report is now available upon request by emailing ishr@columbia.edu. The 2015 cohort—which represented the 27th class of HRAP—hailed from Albania, Australia, Belarus, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Kenya, Myanmar, South Sudan and Turkey.

Bakary Tandia
Alumni Highlight
Bakary Tandia
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia was recently featured in the Voice of America article "African Diaspora Makes Its Voice Count in US Election." The article highlights Bakary's voter mobilization efforts in the 2008 US presidential election and his work in the field of human rights.

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