For Africa to address challenges like climate justice, conflict transformation, and food security, the participation of youth activists will be critical.
Reading between the lines of the COP26 decisions, you can find small wins that are the result of the tireless efforts and dedication of the climate justice movement.
Making sexual and reproductive health services accessible in practice means the limits of invoking conscientious objection must be incisively interrogated.
This fictional scenario draws on real signals of change to construct a future scenario around the impacts of datafication on the human rights movement.
Understanding how datafication affects the rights and interests of people, and power relationships at large, is key for an effective defense of human rights.
The Chilean Constitutional Convention should give careful thought to how to strengthen the relationship between social rights and the right to equality and non-discrimination.
Understanding RTHE through the lens of wildlife crime is a reminder that tackling crime through a rights-based approach contributes to the fulfilment of human rights.
By reforming its own system, Egypt can influence positive changes in other countries in the region and lead the way for accessible legal gender recognition mechanisms.
Restrictions on civil society undermine climate mitigation efforts and impede the collaboration that is so crucial to slowing the climate crisis over the next decade.
In this Data Column, we explore and compare the usage of several climate-related terms in English and Spanish to track how they have evolved over time.
A transnational racial justice lens is essential to understand recent Haitian migration through the Americas, but also to develop any future policy responses.
History has shown that despite strong opposition to Special Procedures, they have been valuable mechanisms for catalyzing positive changes at the local level.
OGR has asked several leaders in the human rights community to share a learning, a reflection, or an insight from these unique times. Read or listen to them here.
The human rights framework can buttress the responses needed to address the emergency, providing tools to guarantee human dignity and the right to a healthy environment.
While civic action and space are under relentless pressure worldwide, different dimensions of a more positive future are being built and fought for across the world.
It is essential to translate human rights principles and standards into practicable pragmatic measures that can provide that coherence, legitimacy, and sustainability.
While civic action and civic space are under relentless pressure worldwide, different dimensions of a more positive future are being built and fought for in communities ...
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.
To do justice to such an ambitious goal, the Chilean process should not leave anyone behind. This is a historic occasion to make the case for social rights.
While some economists and political scientists praise Botswana as a ‘success story’, the country provides more than just a tale of growth and stability.
The Mexican State failed in its obligation to guarantee access to human rights for millions because it did not have a sufficient social security infrastructure ...
If attention is directed towards the dynamism of social movements and human rights activism around the world, a different set of views of the cathedral emerges.
