By: Lara Stemple
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Exclusionary strategies that police the boundaries of terms like “gender” contradict the equality norms upon which human rights are based.

By: Pavlina Pavlova
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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: Hanna Wedajo & Joan DeJaeghere & Mahlet Yednkachew
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Confronting sexual violence on campus: research-practice in Ethiopia

By: Peter Splinter
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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: Andrés Constantin & Belén Rios
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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: Alejando Baer & George Dalbo & Jillian LaBranche
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This project seeks to identify opportunities and challenges for educators committed to social justice and healing to critically examine their practices and engage ...

By: Barbara Frey & Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & Joachim Savelsberg & Jessica Stanton
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Long-term partnerships between academics and practitioners can build knowledge that both protects and advances human rights.

By: Ravindran Daniel
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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: Dolores Trevizo
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Intersectional methods illuminate the variation in human suffering—with gender only one of several factors shaping experiences with violence.

By: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky 
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What do inequalities, Covid-19, and human rights have to do with each other?

By: Michael Goodhart
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It’s time to forget cosmopolitanism: it’s flawed and it impedes clearheaded analysis of human rights backlash.

By: James Ron
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Based on a representative sample, researchers found that respondents’ assessment of current human and civil rights conditions was strongly correlated with their ...

By: Kevin Hershey
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What can we learn from teaching democracy to third graders?

By: Kelly Matheson
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As visual evidence galvanizes movements around the world and provides irrefutable evidence, climate litigators have an opportunity to leverage phone, drone, and ...

By: David Forsythe
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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: Deirdre de Burca
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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: Zoha Shahid & Seemal Hameed & Simrah Faruqi
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Even though special economic zones promote industrial development, such development comes at the expense of land, labour, and human rights.

By: Mayisha Begum
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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: Japhet Biegon
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The first ever virtual session, triggered by a pandemic, may have just heralded a potential future of more accessible and inclusive ACHPR sessions.

By: Laura T. Murphy
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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: Jonathan Rowson
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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: Joe Cho
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A Korean Supreme Court decision demonstrates long-overdue recognition of religious rights and the right to conscientious objection over military service.

By: Michelle Jonker-Argueta
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Closing the impunity gap on climate change includes making fossil fuel suppliers accountable for their emissions.

By: Chay Brown
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Bottom-up, participatory processes can harness place-based expertise and fundamentally shift the way we respond to violence against women.

By: Cristina Palabay & Francisco Mateo Rocael Morales & Miguel Martín Zumalacárregui & Ruben Kondrup
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Injustices suffered by impoverished communities and communities of color around the world will not be rectified through mere superficial changes in policies but ...

By: David Griffiths
Français

Organizations like Amnesty International must be willing to embrace solidarity and community organizing to overcome the politics of demonization.

By: Pablo Abitbol
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By centering resistances on ​​identity, we might unknowingly reproduce the discourses that essentialize it.

By: Ali Miller & Ann Sarnak
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Using human rights covertly can identify harms otherwise difficult to attribute to root causes—especially in “scofflaw” countries.

By: Kristin Smith & Sonali Dhawan
العربية

The new “Yazidi Female Survivors Law”, while groundbreaking, is too narrow to address the needs of some of Iraq’s most vulnerable communities.

By: Wyatt Gjullin
Español | Português

For environmental and human rights defenders in support of indigenous communities, one of the paths forward is through legal arguments.

By: Hussein Banai
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The process of dialogue, reciprocity, and continual struggle in everyday cosmopolitanism is precisely what positions human rights as an effective bulwark against ...

By: William Paul Simmons
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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: Avery R. Everhart
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How can human rights push back against regressive global trends in trans rights and sexual and reproductive rights?

By: Momin Rahman
العربية

There is a major pitfall in assuming that other countries simply need to “catch up” through an expansion of SOGIE rights frameworks.

By: Christoph Steinert
العربية

When political prisoners are locked up by states as “terrorists”, how can human rights activists overcome such systematic attempts to deny political motives?

By: Kristi Heather Kenyon
Setswana | Zulu

In practice, no one enjoys “international human rights.” In each of our lives, all rights are local and personal.

By: Kate Gilmore & Rajat Khosla
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The interplay between sexuality, sex, sexual and reproductive health and human rights is not a mere question of biology, but of palpable matters of power, politics, ...

By: Jackie Smith
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It is now clearer than ever that the protection of global health requires universal recognition of everyone’s basic human rights.

By: Shareen Hertel
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If it was difficult to show the interconnections among people and rights before the onset of COVID-19, we have an opportunity to do so now.

By: Lisa Levenstein
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Without the ingenuity of feminists from the Global South and networks of committed activists on every continent, we would never have heard the phrase: “Women’s ...

By: David Mattingly
Français

Funders should trust and imitate their frontline partners’ ability to assess their communities’ greatest needs and offer the flexibility to pivot amid a crisis.

By: Stanley Ibe
Français

Many states still fail to realize that protecting the rights of the poor will ultimately make addressing a pandemic—and other global crises—easier.

By: Joe Hoover
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Appeals to humanity and the pronouncement of universal standards are empty (or worse) if they don’t begin with the difficult work of identifying and dismantling ...

By: Caio Borges
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A new generation of climate cases being brought before Brazilian courts is addressing climate change more directly in an effort to save the Amazon.

By: Sunita Toor
हिन्दी

Movements like #MeToo demonstrate the power of solidarity and collective digital action, but they also reveal that feminist activism is not a monolithic movement ...

By: Pardis Mahdavi
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In the US, feminism is under attack from the right, the left, and from within—causing American feminists a “triple bind”.

By: Theresa Harris
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Building a pipeline for human rights practitioners and scientists who want to work at the intersections of their fields would create opportunities for systemic ...

By: Nelson Camilo Sanchez
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The economic crisis from the pandemic could bring solutions from the global South into global North cities that are less accustomed to confronting such issues.