January 20, 2021 The Right Family: The personal is geopolitical With the new U.S. administration, the Geneva Consensus Declaration might lose a supporter in this anti-feminist coalition that wants to preserve the traditional ... By Rita Abrahamsen Español
January 13, 2021 Blasphemy laws and human rights: a match made in hell There are few indications that blasphemy laws are effective in hindering discrimination, conflict, and violence; in fact, the opposite may very well be the case. By Marie Juul Petersen Español
January 8, 2021 No Transit: The criminal treatment of transgender asylum seekers in the United States Transgender asylum seekers, who are already more at-risk than typical applicants, now face tremendous hurdles and abuse as they try to survive in the confines of ... By Robert Stribley Español
December 23, 2020 From hardship to hope: women migrant workers in the Indian ready-made garment industry In order to provide women migrant workers with a life of dignity, security, and a sense of recognition at their workplaces, the three primary stakeholders of the ... By Archana Shukla Mukherjee & PV Narayanan Español
December 22, 2020 Stopping the abuse in your produce basket Under the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and consumers have the opportunity to rethink how we look at the human costs that sustain our grocery shopping. By Amanda Borquaye Español
December 21, 2020 Tainted Stones: Sandstone produced by bonded labor and child labor makes its way into the United States Effective efforts to combat bonded and child labor in the Indian sandstone supply chain will require a nuanced approach to establish the right incentives to enforce ... By Waris Husain & Sonali Dhawan हिन्दी
December 21, 2020 Why are white evangelicals anti-human rights? The anti-human rights position of white evangelicals in the U.S. is less about religion and more about politics. By Howard Lavine & James Ron & Richard L. Wood Español
December 18, 2020 Facing Intersecting Crises: LGBTIQ+ Resilience in Fiji The resilience of the LGBTIQ+ community is admirable and inspiring; however, governments must ensure that all communities are safe and secure in times of crises, ... By Marisa Hutchinson Español
December 16, 2020 UN Human Rights recommendations key to US post-election era A genuine step for the Biden-Harris administration would be to formally establish a standing coordination mechanism across all relevant parts of the US government ... By Joshua Cooper & Shelley Inglis & Joel R. Pruce Español
December 14, 2020 “Storian Blong Yumi”: the world’s highest court must face the world’s biggest problem An advisory opinion on climate action from the ICJ would empower states, civil society organizations, and climate activists with potent tools to combat environmental ... By Vishal Prasad & Solomon Yeo Español Na Vosa Vakaviti
December 11, 2020 From Barbuda to the World: Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency Barbuda is a microcosm of larger trends and issues from climate-induced displacement and disaster capitalism, to the greenwashing of policies that undermine climate ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Elizabeth Donger Español
December 10, 2020 Why women’s right to health and gender equality should be your business In order to address existing inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic, companies should make a serious effort in reducing the gender pay gap, upholding maternity ... By Layanna Martin & Neel Gammelgård Español
December 9, 2020 Coming to grips with populism after Trump Returning to the rule of law and fortifying democracy in the U.S. will best be accomplished by reemphasizing the country’s own democratic and egalitarian values, ... By Gerald L. Neuman Español
December 2, 2020 Changing gender realities in MENA: Fostering social entrepreneurship Social enterprises help change gender realities in MENA to make them more equal. By Melissa Langworthy & Hadeel Qazzaz العربية
November 30, 2020 Protesting for racial justice, met with excessive force McKay and Heisler reflect on the role of medical personnel when treating patients victims of excessive police force. By Donna McKay & Michele Heisler Español
November 25, 2020 Whose gender is it? Progressive versus regressive line-drawing in advocacy work Exclusionary strategies that police the boundaries of terms like “gender” contradict the equality norms upon which human rights are based. By Lara Stemple Español
November 20, 2020 Did they crack the code? The importance of encryption for protest movements The COVID-19 pandemic has made the shutdowns of online civic space ever more consequential for exercising civil and political rights, and the Belarus protests are ... By Pavlina Pavlova Español
November 19, 2020 Research-practice partnerships in Ethiopia confront sexual violence on campus Confronting sexual violence on campus: research-practice in Ethiopia By Hanna Wedajo & Joan DeJaeghere & Mahlet Yednkachew Français
November 17, 2020 Recent developments in the UN Human Rights Council offer new opportunities to combat racism and police brutality Time will tell whether Resolution 43/1 will dispose Human Rights Council membership to address situations of gross and systematic violations in other countries ... By Peter Splinter Español
November 16, 2020 Public health prevention should be at the center of global health action Human rights are essential to respond to the rise of diet-related noncommunicable diseases because a human rights-based response has proven to be effective in achieving ... By Andrés Constantin & Belén Rios Español
November 12, 2020 Public Education as Reparative Justice in two Settler Colonial Contexts This project seeks to identify opportunities and challenges for educators committed to social justice and healing to critically examine their practices and engage ... By Alejando Baer & George Dalbo & Jillian LaBranche Français
November 11, 2020 The Minnesota Model for human rights: improving both scholarship and practice Long-term partnerships between academics and practitioners can build knowledge that both protects and advances human rights. By Barbara Frey & Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & Joachim Savelsberg & Jessica Stanton Español
November 10, 2020 What are the implications of International Human Rights NGOs moving to the South? The closure of Amnesty International’s India office raises questions about AI's global strategy and the democratization of the global human rights movement. By Ravindran Daniel Español
November 9, 2020 What can intersectional approaches reveal about experiences of violence? Intersectional methods illuminate the variation in human suffering—with gender only one of several factors shaping experiences with violence. By Dolores Trevizo Español
November 6, 2020 The pandemic of inequality What do inequalities, Covid-19, and human rights have to do with each other? By Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky Español
November 6, 2020 Forget cosmopolitanism: the future of human rights is local It’s time to forget cosmopolitanism: it’s flawed and it impedes clearheaded analysis of human rights backlash. By Michael Goodhart Español
November 3, 2020 Who thinks human rights are respected in the United States, and why does it matter? Based on a representative sample, researchers found that respondents’ assessment of current human and civil rights conditions was strongly correlated with their ... By James Ron Español
November 3, 2020 Teaching young children in a flawed democracy What can we learn from teaching democracy to third graders? By Kevin Hershey Español
October 30, 2020 Making the [In]Visible Powerful: Leveraging Climate Visuals in Courts As visual evidence galvanizes movements around the world and provides irrefutable evidence, climate litigators have an opportunity to leverage phone, drone, and ... By Kelly Matheson Español
October 29, 2020 Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights In Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s report on inalienable human rights, it is unclear why freedom of religion and property rights should be elevated over other ... By David Forsythe Español
October 29, 2020 Realising the promise of SDG 16 to promote and protect civic space There is an urgent need for the international community to extend the scope of the SDG 16 civic space indicators that promote and protect civic space. By Deirdre de Burca Español
October 27, 2020 Special economic zones in Pakistan undermine women’s human rights Even though special economic zones promote industrial development, such development comes at the expense of land, labour, and human rights. By Zoha Shahid & Seemal Hameed & Simrah Faruqi Español
October 26, 2020 The #PayUp Campaign is intensifying, but don’t forget the women workers leading the movement By neglecting the importance of women workers in the Global South as central to systemic change, we risk sustaining a movement focused on the ideals of Northern ... By Mayisha Begum Español
October 26, 2020 Can the virtual sessions of the African Commission generate more civil society participation? The first ever virtual session, triggered by a pandemic, may have just heralded a potential future of more accessible and inclusive ACHPR sessions. By Japhet Biegon Français
October 23, 2020 “Sitting with the Grief of Survivors”: embracing collegiality in human rights scholarship When human rights scholars engage survivors as colleagues, we avoid traps of voyeurism and engage with them not just for evidence of their oppression, but for their ... By Laura T. Murphy Español
October 22, 2020 Human Rights: What are the questions that really matter? The human rights movement is needed more than ever, but it will fail humanity if it frames the world’s problems as good citizens being let down by bad governments. By Jonathan Rowson Español
October 20, 2020 Supreme Court breaks new ground around conscientious objection in South Korea A Korean Supreme Court decision demonstrates long-overdue recognition of religious rights and the right to conscientious objection over military service. By Joe Cho Español
October 19, 2020 Closing the supply-side accountability gap through climate litigation Closing the impunity gap on climate change includes making fossil fuel suppliers accountable for their emissions. By Michelle Jonker-Argueta Español
October 16, 2020 To prevent violence against women, we must move away from victim-based responses Bottom-up, participatory processes can harness place-based expertise and fundamentally shift the way we respond to violence against women. By Chay Brown Español
October 16, 2020 Confronting systemic racism globally Injustices suffered by impoverished communities and communities of color around the world will not be rectified through mere superficial changes in policies but ... By Cristina Palabay & Francisco Mateo Rocael Morales & Miguel Martín Zumalacárregui & Ruben Kondrup Español Français العربية
October 15, 2020 What will it take to overcome the politics of demonization? Organizations like Amnesty International must be willing to embrace solidarity and community organizing to overcome the politics of demonization. By David Griffiths Français
October 14, 2020 Focusing on “identity” can essentialize rather than liberate people By centering resistances on identity, we might unknowingly reproduce the discourses that essentialize it. By Pablo Abitbol Español
October 13, 2020 Advancing sexual and reproductive rights in “scofflaw” countries Using human rights covertly can identify harms otherwise difficult to attribute to root causes—especially in “scofflaw” countries. By Ali Miller & Ann Sarnak Español
October 13, 2020 “Yazidi Female Survivors Law” in Iraq is groundbreaking but not enough The new “Yazidi Female Survivors Law”, while groundbreaking, is too narrow to address the needs of some of Iraq’s most vulnerable communities. By Kristin Smith & Sonali Dhawan العربية
October 9, 2020 Moving beyond allyship with Indigenous communities to defend the environment For environmental and human rights defenders in support of indigenous communities, one of the paths forward is through legal arguments. By Wyatt Gjullin Español Português
October 8, 2020 Everyday Cosmopolitanism: clinging to the faith of common humanity The process of dialogue, reciprocity, and continual struggle in everyday cosmopolitanism is precisely what positions human rights as an effective bulwark against ... By Hussein Banai Español
October 8, 2020 Paternal ignorance in human rights devalues knowledge of marginalized populations In the paternal drive to offer aid, victims and their knowledge are viewed as inferior, but rights activists need to admit their ignorance and question their positionality. By William Paul Simmons Español
October 6, 2020 The limits and the promise of trans rights as human rights claims How can human rights push back against regressive global trends in trans rights and sexual and reproductive rights? By Avery R. Everhart Español
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