Latest Perspectives Articles in Date Order page 1 of 10 NEXT Research offers tough love to improve human rights practicesSeptember 20, 2017BY: Joel R. Pruce Français • العربية • Español In human rights work, practicing the same habits does not guarantee improvement ... Measuring globally, surveying locally: A new global effort to measure civil and political rightsSeptember 18, 2017BY: K. Chad Clay Help nominate countries for a pilot study aiming to produce cross-national ... Court judgements are shaking political foundations—and upholding rightsSeptember 14, 2017BY: James A. Goldston Español In Kenya, Guatemala and Brazil, courts have defied presidents and shaken ... Creating effective new coalitions in tough political timesSeptember 7, 2017BY: Andrew Hudson To avoid sinking to the lowest common denominator, activist coalitions ... Defending free speech when laws do not apply equally to everyoneSeptember 5, 2017BY: A. Kayum Ahmed When the ACLU uses civil rights and free speech to defend white supremacists, ... The forgotten advocates of children's rights in GuatemalaSeptember 1, 2017BY: Myrella Saadeh Español In Guatemala, children’s rights advocates are often the most heavily burdened ... Indonesia at a threshold: reinventing the human rights movementAugust 30, 2017BY: Julius Ibrani, Marte Hellema Bahasa Combined with growing fundamentalism and sectarianism, Indonesia once ... The legitimization of violence to solve social problems in BrazilAugust 24, 2017BY: Samira Bueno, Renato Sérgio de Lima Español • Português Many Brazilians indicate that they would accept authoritarianism and government ... Why an anti-ICC narrative may help Kenyan leaders win votesAugust 22, 2017BY: Geoff Dancy Anti-ICC narratives resonate with a crucial minority of Kenyan citizens, ... How to confront restrictive legislation in NigeriaAugust 16, 2017BY: Victoria Ohaeri Français Linking online campaigns to offline action has become critical in challenging ... Tailoring the message: How the political left and right think differently about human rightsAugust 10, 2017BY: Joe Braun, Stephen Arves Effectively motivating people to care about human rights depends largely ... The world is marching towards—not away from—universal human rightsAugust 9, 2017BY: Marc Limon Despite pessimism about the future of human rights, data on treaty ratification ... Hard times, but human rights defenders are resilientAugust 3, 2017BY: Andrew Anderson Español These are hard times for human rights, but pessimists should not underestimate ... Orphan structures: holding companies accountable when owners don’t existAugust 2, 2017BY: Paul Beckett When companies use legal loopholes to mask beneficial owners, it becomes ... Building communities to boost local fundraisingJuly 27, 2017BY: Sadhana Shrestha Español • नेपाली • Français Fundraising should never just be about money—it must also be about raising ... Public interest lawyers need new tools to protect the vulnerableJuly 25, 2017BY: Garth Meintjes Español • Русский • 简体中文 • العربية The paradigmatic wall that separates lawyers into two camps—private and ... Defining rather than defending our human rights “moment”July 20, 2017BY: Nick Robinson Rather than defending our existing human rights movement, advocates from ... Breaking the fourth wall: theater as human rights activismJuly 19, 2017BY: Christa Blackmon Using theater to raise awareness on rights issues not only educates the ... Hard times for human rightsJuly 13, 2017BY: David Forsythe Español Are we facing hard times for human rights, or are these ups and downs ... New threats against human rights defenders require new kinds of protectionJuly 11, 2017BY: Padre Melo Español Human rights organizations and funders in Latin America need to rethink ... Integrating a psychosocial perspective in human rights worksJune 27, 2017BY: Maik Müller Español Integrating a psychosocial perspective requires the incorporation of psychosocial ... “No One Warned Me”: the trade-off between self-care and effective activismJune 20, 2017BY: Yara Sallam العربية Is there a trade off between protecting your mental health as an activist ... Making our movements sustainable: practicing holistic security every dayJune 15, 2017BY: Deepa Ranganathan, María Díaz Ezquerro Español • العربية • Français What does holistic security and collective self-care in human rights work ... A levy in the African Union could be a step towards independenceJune 14, 2017BY: Amandine Rushenguziminega Français A new levy in the African Union could lead to more financial independence—but ... ‘If I lose my freedom’: preemptive resistance to forced confessions in ChinaJune 13, 2017BY: Michael Caster 简体中文 Human rights defenders in China are increasingly using pre-recorded statements ... International organizations and the crisis of legitimacyJune 9, 2017BY: Aseem Prakash, Nives Dolšak When international organizations face legitimacy problems, they need to ... Evicted rights in Spain: no room of one’s ownJune 7, 2017BY: Koldo Casla Español Thousands of people are being evicted in Spain due to austerity measures, ... Write for UsJune 2, 2017BY: OGR Admin Español • Français • العربية Exploring new possibilities beyond foreign funding in BrazilMay 30, 2017BY: Amanda Fazano Español • Français • Português Brazil has a potentially large philanthropy market, and social media may ... New strategies for tackling inequality with human rightsMay 25, 2017BY: Martín Abregú To confront inequality, the Ford Foundation is harnessing the human rights ... Why it’s getting harder (and more dangerous) to hold companies accountableMay 23, 2017BY: Ciara Dowd, Elodie Aba Español • Français Corporations are using defamation lawsuits to shut down their detractors—and ... Collective care in human rights funding: a political standMay 18, 2017BY: Meerim Ilyas, Tatiana Cordero Velásquez العربية • Português • Español To support the activists and groups that we fund, donors must engage in ... International recognition and public opinion towards conflict and violenceMay 16, 2017BY: Yael Zeira Experiments show international recognition of statehood could change popular ... Ready for anything: how preparation can improve trauma recoveryMay 11, 2017BY: Zelalem Kibret العربية When in the field, human rights workers must be better prepared for trauma ... When advocacy work builds resilience, everyone benefitsMay 11, 2017BY: Kristi Pinderi Español • shqiptar For many, activism can be healthy and healing. Security and well-being: two sides of the same coinMay 10, 2017BY: Holly Davis, Magda Adamowicz Español By not paying enough attention to self-care, activists are compromising ... To strengthen digital security for human rights defenders, behavior mattersMay 9, 2017BY: Michael Caster 简体中文 • Español When approaching digital security for human rights defenders in hostile ... Following orders: how expectations might reduce human rights abusesMay 8, 2017BY: Yonatan Lupu Español Understanding the logic of expectations could help us predict why some ... Discrimination in action: the value of experiments in human rightsMay 5, 2017BY: Ana Bracic A video game experiment in Slovenia reveals discriminatory practices against ... Monetizing the human rights “brand”May 4, 2017BY: David Crow, José Kaire, James Ron Español Marketing research can help Mexican rights groups monetize their “brand” ... The human rights lab: using experiments to craft effective messagingMay 3, 2017BY: Michele Leiby, Matthew Krain Español Framing issues in different ways can undermine or bolster support of human ... Using experiments to improve women’s rights in PakistanMay 3, 2017BY: Gulnaz Anjum, Adam Chilton Experiments on support for women’s rights in Pakistan could improve the ... Using the Sustainable Development Goals as a weapon against populismMay 1, 2017BY: Martin S. Edwards, Lis Kabashi The Sustainable Development Goals could give activists the rhetoric they ... Turning weakness into strength: lessons as a new advocateApril 27, 2017BY: Alexandra Zetes Without adequate preparation, new human rights advocates can be easily ... Engage when we can, confront when we mustApril 26, 2017BY: Navaz Kotwal Indian human rights workers do not want to engage with the police, but ... Engagement versus endorsement: Western universities in ChinaApril 25, 2017BY: Robert Edward Precht The presence of Western universities in China is on the rise, but they ... Accountability versus access: collaborating with rights violators in conflict zonesApril 24, 2017BY: Christine Monaghan Français In health care, both access and accountability require understanding and ... How new data can—and can’t—support academic researchApril 21, 2017BY: Merrill Sovner Human rights practitioners and researchers often ask very different questions ... page 1 of 10 NEXT
