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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Congratulations to 2016 Advocate Aehshatou Manu of Cameroon who sent us the following update: "I am at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva where I serve as a Senior Fellow/Consultant at the Indigenous and Minority Section, Secretariat of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples and the Indigenous Fellowship Programme assisting Mr.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

On Tuesday, April 23rd, ISHR’s Executive Director, Professor Joseph Slaughter, was interviewed by Democracy Now!. “We have extremely robust rules for the protection of speech and protest on campus; we have an extremely robust system for protecting due process rights for students when they have violated or are accused of having violated those protections.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

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Saturday, April 20, 2024

The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) is now open for applications to the Spring 2026 program. 

Friday, April 19, 2024

In honor of HRAP’s 35th anniversary, ISHR asked Columbia alumni to reflect on their experience with HRAP. Victor Jandres Rivera, who graduated from Columbia in May 2024, wrote about serving as the most recent HRAP program coordinator.