Our Advocates

Between 1989 and 2023, more than 350 advocates from nearly 100 countries have attended the program. HRAP participants have ranged from early-career advocates who cut their teeth in very urgent human rights situations to mid-career advocates who have founded organizations. HRAP alumni have served as UN special rapporteurs, in the ministries of their governments, and at leading human rights organizations around the globe. They have been recognized with honors including the Rafto Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, the highest acknowledgment from the international human rights community.

Below are the biographies of current Advocates and descriptions by select alumni as to why they became human rights advocates.

To see a list of additional past Advocates click here.

To read about more about the work of our Advocates click here .

 

Jelena Hrnjak, 2022
Serbia
Jade Jacobs, 2022
South Africa
Marine Kapanadze , 2022
Georgia
Antonia Moreira , 2022
Brazil
Daniel Alejandro Pinilla, 2021
Colombia
Mariam Antadze , 2021
Georgia
Larissa Arroyo Navarrete, 2021
Costa Rica
Mario D’Andrea, 2021
Venezuela
Marija Krstevska, 2021
North Macedonia
Ro-Ann Mohammed, 2021
Barbados
Isabella Mukankusi, 2021
Uganda
Elvira Constantina Pablo Antonio, 2021
Mexico
Aminatu S. Gambo, 2021
Cameroon
Dominique St. Vil, 2021
Haiti
Ritu Thapa, 2021
Nepal