Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) 2026-2027. Founded in 1989, HRAP leverages the assets of Columbia University and people supplied by NYC as a hub of NGOs and worldwide organizations to offer human rights advocates with educational, ability-constructing, mentoring, and networking alternatives. Through seminars, participation in college programs, and workshops led by workers from main human rights organizations in addition to conferences with policymakers and funders, advocates share their experiences, mirror critically on their work, and plan future campaigns.

More than 350 advocates from 100 nations have attended this system because it was created in 1989. The cumulative attain of HRAP contributors is extraordinary: alumni have labored with organizations whose memberships vary from the hundreds to the tens of millions. They may be discovered at outstanding human rights organizations, serving of their nationwide governments and on the UN, instructing at universities across the globe, and serving on the frontlines of human rights in an effort to make a extra simply and peaceable world.

Funding

• After ISHR conducts its stringent choice course of, it makes each effort to safe funding for shortlisted Advocates to attend this system. In sure instances the place ISHR can not safe funding, shortlisted Advocates could also be requested to safe the funds wanted for them to be admitted to this system.

Eligibility

• Open to human rights activists working with NGOs on points together with sexual and gender-primarily based violence, minority rights, LGBTQI+ rights, labor rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, migration, well being, social exclusion, environmental justice, incapacity rights, and company social accountability.
• Participants are chosen on the premise of their work expertise in human rights, dedication to the human rights area, and demonstrated means to pursue graduate-degree research.
• Full-time college students, lecturers, or authorities officers is not going to be thought-about. Applicants holding full-time jobs pursuing their advocacy efforts are most popular.

Application

Applicants are requested to finish the application in its entirety. The complete application together with attachments have to be in English. They shall be accepting functions by Monday, December 1, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET.

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For extra data, go to HRAP.