Formation
Student internships & professional formation
Mentoring and experiential opportunities prepare emerging advocates to engage international institutions with clarity, confidence, and respect for human dignity.
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Forming advocates.
Defending life.
Shaping global policy.
ISHRI equips students, scholars, and professionals to advance an authentic understanding of human rights at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and beyond.
Why ISHRI exists
Human rights begin with the human person.
The International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute advances human rights grounded in Natural Law and the inherent dignity and equal worth of every person—from conception until natural death. We turn scholarship into formation, dialogue, and principled engagement in the institutions where global policy takes shape.
Where conviction becomes action
We form. We research. We advocate.
ISHRI connects rigorous academic formation with meaningful participation in international public life.
Scholarship
Research, education & public dialogue
Conferences, publications, and academic partnerships strengthen serious inquiry into Natural Law, human rights, life, family, and religious freedom.
Engagement
International advocacy at the UN & OAS
Policy dialogue, civil society participation, legal work, and international collaboration bring principled scholarship into the rooms where policy is shaped.
A practical pathway
From the classroom to the international stage.
ISHRI gives students and professionals more than an academic perspective. It gives them a place to practice: learning the language of global institutions, developing sound arguments, and participating in international advocacy.
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Every policy, every institution, and every human right must ultimately serve the dignity of the person.
ISHRI’s guiding conviction
Leadership
Scholarship with real-world experience.
ISHRI is led by scholars and advocates whose work spans law, political science, bioethics, Catholic social teaching, and international human rights.
President
Professor D. Brian Scarnecchia
Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, author, and longtime international human rights advocate.
Vice President
Dr. Stephen M. Krason
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, author, attorney, and scholar of ethics in public life.
Treasurer & OAS Representative
Professor Ligia Castaldi
Professor of Law and scholar focused on prenatal rights and the Inter-American human rights system.
European Representative
Dr. Olivia Serrano Núñez
Civil society leader and advocate before the UN and OAS focused on family, motherhood, and human development.
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Let’s build a culture of life, solidarity, and authentic human rights.
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