HRIC Youth Program: Building the Next Generation of Human Rights Advocates
Summer Intern Program. The program is part of HRIC's long-term strategy to engage university students in human rights work, cultivate a new generation of advocates, and prepare future leaders. This year's cohort co-authored a Campus Human Rights Advocacy Handbook, a practical guide to help students establish and sustain human rights initiatives on university campuses, and conducted individual research on rural women's land rights, labor rights in Belt and Road projects, transnational repression, and data analysis in human rights documentation. Their work was showcased in July 2026 at NYU School of Law. HRIC Summer Intern Report: China’s Human Rights Issues from the Perspective of a Younger Generation +2
Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship. The fellowship enables an NYU Law School graduate to devote a year to full-time human rights work at HRIC. Hrichina
Diaspora youth mobilization. Under Executive Director Zhou Fengsuo, HRIC works to mobilize and empower young Chinese advocates in the diaspora to support rights defenders in China, in solidarity with Uyghur and Tibetan communities.
