Training on The Human Rights Advocates at Columbia University

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The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University

HRAP is designed to prepare proven human rights leaders from the GlobalSouth and marginalized communities in the U.S. to participate in national and international policy debates on globalization by buildingtheir skills, knowledge, and contacts. The Program features a four-monthresidency at Columbia University in New York City with a structured curriculum of advocacy, networking, skills-building, and academiccoursework.

Since 2004, HRAP has concentrated its support on individuals andorganizations that address issues broadly related to globalization. The four-month intensive capacity building program based at ColumbiaUniversity in New York focuses on the following key issue areas:

• Environmental injustice
• Labor rights violations
• Abuses by multinational corporations
• Ramifications of resource extraction
• Public health crises
• Unsustainable development
• Intolerance, xenophobia, and social exclusion related to globalization

Special attention is given to the above issues and their intersection with gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, and/or other sources ofmarginalization.

Funding
CSHR makes every effort to provide full fellowships to cover program costs as well as travel and living expenses for selected Advocates each year. CSHR staff will work with interested candidates who have been waitlisted for the Program to identify potential funding sources in cases where CSHR does not yet have the resources to provide a full fellowship. Read more