Alumni News at the Institute

Advocate Bakary Tandia Joins Anti-Slavery Delegation to UN
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Bakary Tandia, a graduate of the 2010 Human Rights Advocates Program, recently coordinated the New York visit of Biram Dah Abeid, the president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania, who was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

Ishita Rahul Petkar
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Ishita Rahul Petkar
Monday, April 17, 2017

Ishita is a 2017 graduate of the Human Rights Studies M.A. with a focus on the nexus between Indigenous rights and corporate responsibility.

HRAP Alumnus Recognized by the European Union
U Aung Myo Min of Myanmar Awarded Schuman Award
Monday, April 10, 2017

ISHR congratulates 1993 Advocate U Aung Myo Min of Equality Myanmar  who was awarded the first Schuman Award by the European Union in Myanmar for his " outstanding merits in promoting equality, non-discrimination and human rights" in the country.

The award was also granted to posthously to Burmese lawyer U Ko Ni and Daw Ja Nan Lahtaw, director of the Shalom Foundation.

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Alexandra Rizio
Monday, April 3, 2017

A 2006 graduate of Columbia College with a concentration in Human Rights, Alexandra Rizio now serves as a Supervising Attorney at the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to unaccompanied immigration children facing deportation. In this role, Rizio represents children, most of whom have fled Central America, in immigration and family court proceedings, and mentors pro bono attorneys in their cases.

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Chinonye Alma Otuonye, M.A. 2017
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

ISHR congratulates Chinonye Alma Otuonye on her acceptance into the Cultural Anthropology PhD program at CUNY.

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