ISHR wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2025 Human Rights Thesis Competition

On April 23, twelve graduate and undergraduate human rights students gathered on Zoom to participate in ISHR's annual Human Rights Thesis Competition. During the event, students took hundreds of hours of thesis research in the human rights discipline and transformed it into 5-minute presentations.

Maria-Vera Azadian, (Human Rights Major, Columbia College) won the Faculty Choice Winner Undergraduate prize and Audience Choice Winner prize; Johanna Wassong, (M.A. Human Rights Studies, GSAS) won the Faculty Choice Winner Graduate prize. 

You can watch the winning presentations here: Maria-Vera Azadian and Johanna Wassong.