Manmeet Bindra '05 Receives a Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellowship
Manmeet Bindra '05 has received a Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellowship from Columbia's Center for the Study of Human Rights. Three Columbia students received the honor, but Bindra was the only undergraduate among them.
Designed to help graduating Columbia students gain practical work experience in the field of human rights, the Fellowship provides $27,000 to enable the student to complete two six-month internships with human rights organizations, one in a developing country and the other in an industrialized country. Bindra will intern in South Africa and India with NGO's concerned with the sex industry and HIV/ AIDS studying especially the impact of human migration.
The fellowships are funded by the Third Millennium Foundation, a private foundation located in New York City. The foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives that promote tolerance, particularly among the young. International human rights fellowships are one of seven initiatives at the Foundation. The Columbia Fellows will later meet with counterparts from other universities also supported by the Third Millennium Foundation. This is the second year of the fellowship program at Columbia.
Bindra was recently profiled as one of Barnard's Interns in Action. Click here to read the article. Established in 1978, the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia is committed to the education and training of emerging human rights leaders. The Center has pioneered the promotion of human rights research, education, and training and distinguished itself through its interdisciplinary approach to human rights. Drawing on its location as well as its extensive links to international human rights and non-governmental organizations worldwide, the Center has played an important role in bridging theory and practice in the field of human rights. Now entering its twenty-sixth year, the Center continues to create spaces for reflection and interaction between and among university faculty and students, human rights activists, policymakers, members of the business community, and other practitioners.
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