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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.

2024-25 HRAP Report Now Available!
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

ISHR is pleased to publish the 2024-25 HRAP report. Please download the report here to learn more about the 2024-25 HRAP cohort and program. 

2019 Advocate Calls for Attending WorldPride DC 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
The Washington Blade recently published an opinion piece by 2019 Advocate Mariano Ruiz of Argentina about the upcoming WorldPride DC 2025. Mariano writes: "If we set the precedent that global LGBTQI+ events cannot happen under right-wing or anti-LGBTQI+ governments, we will effectively disqualify a growing list of countries from hosting. That includes not only the U.S. under Trump, but Hungary, Italy, Uganda, Poland — and even my own country, Argentina, under Javier Milei. Yet ILGA World still plans to convene its 2027 conference in Buenos Aires, and rightly so.
ISHR wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2025 Human Rights Thesis Competition
Thursday, May 15, 2025
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. 

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