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Undergraduate Alum Chosen for Kristof Award and FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Trisha Mukherjee, Human Rights major CC ‘21, has been chosen to receive  Nicholas Kristof’s “Win a Trip” Award. Kristof, a New York Times Opinion columnist, selects one student from an American university to accompany him on an international reporting trip. Trisha, who also graduated from Columbia Journalism School in May 2024, will travel and report with him in Madagascar, Mauritius, and Kenya for 2 weeks this winter.

Faculty Highlight: Glenn Mitoma
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Glenn Mitoma is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University. He joined ISHR in the Fall of 2023. His research and teaching focus on the history of human rights and human rights education, with current projects on the role of education in advancing respect for human rights, and the history of human rights education.  Glenn was recently featured in the "Human Rights Education Now!" podcast.

Congratulations to HRSMA Alum on receiving the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Tetiana (Tanya) Kotelnykova, HRSMA 2023, was selected as a recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. The award ceremony took place on May 6, 2024. 

2023-24 HRAP Annual Report is Now Available
Monday, July 8, 2024

The Human Rights Advocates Program's 2023-24 Annual Program Report is now available.

Click here to read the full report.
Click here to read past HRAP Program Reports.
2018 Advocate Honored as TIP (Trafficking in Persons) Report Hero
Monday, July 1, 2024

2018 Advocate Marijana Savić from the Belgrade-based NGO Atina was recognized as a TIP (Trafficking in Persons) Report Hero by the US Department of State in a ceremony in Washington, DC.

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