December 1, 2023 Human Rights at 75: The End of Endism With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 75th anniversary, scholars and advocates should move past debates about the end of human rights and renew their ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
September 27, 2023 Anti-green authoritarianism: Democratic backsliding on a heating planet To develop strategies to protect human rights, advocates must understand and target the relationship between authoritarianism and anti-environmental policies. By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Arpitha Kodiveri Español
May 25, 2023 ChatGPT: What’s left of the human in human rights? This new series examines the potential effects of AI in the human rights field. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
October 28, 2022 More than human rights: What can we learn from trees, animals, and fungi? Changing the focus from a human-centric approach to human rights will help the movement advance on environmental agendas with an inter-species recognition. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
April 8, 2022 The (science) fiction of human rights How a particular kind of science fiction resonates with a wide audience and can enrich human rights thinking and practice By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
December 9, 2021 The eight-year decade that will determine the fate of the planet and human rights If slowing climate change is a game, how is it going and what's left to accomplish? By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
September 30, 2021 The doughnut approach: how to climatize human rights If human rights are to remain relevant in the Anthropocene, budding theoretical, doctrinal, and advocacy efforts to address the climate emergency need to be expanded. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
June 12, 2021 Human rights responses against vaccine apartheid In this OGR Up Close, a series of distinguished authors go beyond denouncing the vaccine apartheid. They advocate solutions that address the current health emergency ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
March 12, 2021 Five existential challenges to human rights A look at the key geopolitical, ecological, technological and socio-economic challenges to human rights. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
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
June 26, 2020 Climate litigation and human rights: averting the next global crisis OGR's newest series explores a rising wave of lawsuits that is laying bare the profound impacts that a warming planet has on basic human rights and future generations. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
May 16, 2020 Post-pandemic futures, hope, and human rights If human rights actors are to help shape the post-pandemic world, they need to start imagining it now. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español Français العربية
October 24, 2019 Anti-capitalist human rights for the 21st Century In addition to asking whether or not human rights reinforce the status quo, we should address the following question: can human rights contribute to imagining non-capitalist ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito العربية Español
June 10, 2019 For human rights to have a future, we must consider time Obsessed with pushing spatial boundaries, the human rights community left aside concerns about time. It now must refine its long-term goals as well as its short-term ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español العربية
September 12, 2018 Reimagining human rights as a frame of justice The future of human rights as a frame of justice depends on our capacity to create, detect, and foster bridges with other frames. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
June 28, 2018 Populism and human rights: a new playbook With populist leaders stoking nationalism and violating basic rights, traditional advocacy strategies are losing their effectiveness. The human rights movement ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Krizna Gomez Español العربية
November 21, 2017 Scientists and activists collaborate to bring hard data into advocacy A new collaboration in Colombia is bringing together activists, scientists, physicians and other experts to collect hard evidence on the human rights impacts of ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
December 10, 2016 Trump’s victory could push the human rights movement to transform Donald Trump’s victory is a threat to human rights, but could it also push the movement to transform and strategize with greater urgency? By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
November 2, 2015 The ‘soft vengeance’ of peace in Colombia An agreement recently concluded between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels promises both peace and justice, and deserves support by human rights advocates. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
March 30, 2015 Muzzling humor in the Ecuadorean Revolution In Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government muzzles critique and attacks satirists in an increasingly anti-democratic environment. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
January 21, 2015 Multiple boomerangs: new models of global human rights advocacy The global human rights field is being transformed, and activists are inventing new, less hierarchical models of collaboration, including global virtual networks ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
July 30, 2013 Against reductionist views of human rights César Rodríguez-Garavito responds to Stephen Hopgood and Aryeh Neier, criticising both sides of the debate for an all too simplistic view of the actors, the content ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
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