For more than 20 years, the Center for the Study of Human Rights has demonstrated its commitment to training and education in human rights through collaborations with human rights activists and local organizations worldwide — collaborations that enhance the activists' advocacy skills and strengthen the capacities of their institutions. The following are the Center's current training initiatives:

Human Rights Advocates Program
The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University has launched a new training initiative to advance human rights thinking and activism with respect to the global economy. The Initiative on Human Rights Advocacy and the Global Economy, incorporates the Center's highly successful Human Rights Advocates Training Program, featuring a program of advocacy, skill-building, and scholarship through a four-month, intensive training program in New York for up to ten activists each year.

Institutional Collaboration
The Center works closely with universities in the "Global South" to establish human rights centers and programs. In 1998, CSHR launched a University Human Rights Consortium with the University of São Paulo and the Pontifical University in São Paulo, Brazil, to conduct joint efforts in human rights training and research. In South Africa, the Center is collaborating with the University of South Africa (UNISA) to develop a distance-learning curriculum in human rights.