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Congratulations to HRSMA Alum, Gaisu Yari, on receiving the 2025 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award
Monday, May 12, 2025
Gaisu Yari, HRSMA 2018, was selected as a recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. The award ceremony took place on April 28, 2025.The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Outstanding Recent Alumni Award honors individuals who have graduated within the past ten years and have excelled in early stages of their careers, exemplifying what GSAS alumni can achieve.
2010 Advocate Joins Anti-Slavery Activists at Aurora Summit
Monday, May 12, 2025

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia joined fellow anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid, the founder of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (Mauritania), and Sean Tenner, who co-founded The Abolition Institute (USA) with Tandia, on a panel discussion at the 2025 Human Rights & Humanitarian Forum sponsored by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. The forum brings together leading humanitarians, legal advocates, scholars, and students to explore how we can work across sectors to build a more resilient and just world.

2018 Advocate Pepe Onziema on Legal Advocacy for LGBTQI+ People
Monday, April 28, 2025

2018 Advocate Pepe Onziema spoke at the University of Paris-Nanterre (France) in April at the invitation of ADUH and STOP Homophobie. His talk focused on the criminalization of homosexuality and the legal challenges surrounding the persecution of LGBTQI+ individuals by states. Pepe emphasized the importance of grounding legal advocacy in the lived experiences of queer people on the ground. He underscored that queer communities should be empowered to choose their own legal representation, rather than having lawyers select their clients.

2024-25 Advocate Authors New Book
Friday, April 25, 2025

In the recently released book Anti-Gender Human Rights: The Legal Reasoning on Bolsonaro's Administration on LGBTI+ Policies (2019-2022), 2024-25 Advocate Gustavo Coutinho analyzes how the Bolsonaro government operated a legal and symbolic offensive against the LGBTI+ movement - not by chance, targeting gender and sexuality as central targets in its cultural war.

2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique participated in several public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas
Thursday, April 24, 2025
2022-23 Advocate Ana Belique of Reconoci.do in the Dominican Republic recently participated in a number of public events on the need for reparative justice for Afro-descendant communities across the Americas. She shared the following updates on the events:

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