Category: Fellowships

2024-2025 Henigson Fellowship Application Now Open

The Human Rights Program is pleased to announce that the application for the 2024-2025 Henigson Fellowship is now open.  The…

PLSMW and HRP Announce Joint Fellowship in Honor of Neelan Tiruchelvam

The Human Rights Program (HRP) and Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (PLSMW) at Harvard Law School…

A Tireless Advocate for Children’s Rights Leaves HRP

We recently bade farewell to HRP’s Eleanor Roosevelt Visiting Fellow Benyam Dawit Mezmur, who returned to his regular position as…

2023-2024 Henigson Fellow Advocating for Gender Equality at Clooney Foundation

The Human Rights Program is pleased to present its 2023-2024 Henigson Fellow Rebecca Gore LLM’23. Rebecca is a South African…

HRP Awards 2023 Summer Fellows

HRP is pleased to announce its 2023 summer fellowship cohort: Chinaza Asiegbu JD’25, Sabrina Ochoa JD’24, and Krister Rasmussen JD’25….

Application to 2023-24 Postgraduate Human Rights Fellowships Now Open

The Human Rights Program (HRP) is pleased to announce that the 2023-24 application for the Henigson Human Rights Fellowship and…

Visiting Fellow Spotlight: María Cecilia Ercole

At only 34 years, María Cecilia Ercole has already established herself as a seasoned human rights practitioner with over eight…

Benyam Dawit Mezmur in Harvard Law Today

On October 24, 2022, Harvard Law Today published a portrait of Benyam Dawit Mezmur, who is one of the world’s…

HRP Awards 2022-23 Post-Graduate Fellowships

The Human Rights Program (HRP) is pleased to present its 2022-2023 Post-Graduate Fellows. This year, we have awarded Satter and Henigson Fellowships to two…

2021 HRP Summer Fellow Reflection: Amre Metwally JD’22

Metwally spent summer 2021 at Social Media Exchange in Beirut, Lebanon In a time of dim prospects for democracy in…