The Graduate Student Volunteer Program (GSVP) at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) was created in 2011 to support alumni of the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). ISHR sends Columbia University human rights students abroad each summer to contribute to the advocacy efforts of HRAP alumni-led organizations. Between 2011 and 2013, a total of six students have volunteered at HRAP-affiliated grassroots organizations in India, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Kenya. GSVP is beneficial to the human rights students too in that it immerses them in grassroots human rights advocacy efforts and gives them first-hand knowledge of human rights in the field.
For more information about GSVP, visit http://humanrightscolumbia.org/gsvp/apply.