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January 15, 2020By: Susan Wilding Español
States need to focus on strategies that actually work and expose governments that are dismantling democracy ...
January 14, 2020By: Raymond A. Smith Español
How can international human rights law be creatively deployed to expand protections to other characteristics ...
January 8, 2020By: Thomas Coombes Español | Français | العربية
To make the case for civil society, we have to talk less about the threats it faces and more about the ...
January 8, 2020By: Philip Alston Español
The digitalization of welfare is presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure ...
December 19, 2019By: Brian Gorlick Français | العربية
The Rohingya refugees are unlikely to be able to return home anytime soon. We need to look at other ...
December 18, 2019By: Regan Ralph
As hostile governments push nativist rhetoric and enact abusive policies, supporting the innovative ...
December 18, 2019By: Marie Juul Petersen & Katherine Marshall Español | العربية
Freedom of religion or belief is rightly gaining more attention, but steps to promote this right need ...
December 13, 2019By: Kate Jones Español | Français
To date, it’s been left to the tech companies to set limits on online political campaigning. Governments ...
December 13, 2019By: Juan Francisco Lobo Español
The protests in Chile, and indeed worldwide, demonstrate a demand for human dignity, in all of its ...
December 11, 2019By: Cate Brown Español
As civilian protesters take to the streets to demand their rights, human rights leaders consider a future ...
December 10, 2019By: Krizna Gomez & Thomas Coombes Español | Français | العربية
An experimental, hands-on narrative change initiative shows how even small civil society organizations ...
December 5, 2019By: Wangũi wa Kamonji Español | Português
In the face of growing climate change, indigenous women in Kenya are remembering and reinstating their ...
December 4, 2019By: Steven L. B. Jensen Español | Français
UN human rights bodies are highlighting inequality when making recommendations to states – showing that ...
December 4, 2019By: Malene Alleyne & Felix Kirchmeier Español | Français
Small states often lack the capacity to engage effectively with the treaty body system as currently ...
December 3, 2019By: Vanessa Daza Castillo Español | Português
In Colombia, children and young people are finding different ways to raise awareness and stimulate action ...
November 27, 2019By: Armel Niyongere Español | Français
Treaty bodies showed their ability to take the right measures in situations of crisis like in Burundi. ...
November 26, 2019By: Ignacio Saiz Español | العربية
Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide ...
November 25, 2019By: Beatrice Tulagan Español | Tagalog
Declaring a climate emergency is not enough, but women activists in Asia are pushing for these declarations ...
November 25, 2019By: Pradeep Baisakh
Social systems in India are crumbling, leading to starvation deaths despite a plethora of food security ...
November 21, 2019By: Olivier de Frouville Español | Français
The treaty body system has been in crisis for at least thirty years. Will the year 2020 bring change?
November 20, 2019By: Merrill Sovner & Barry Gaberman & William Moody Español
The project of developing civil society organizations that keep the government in check and nurture ...
November 14, 2019By: Erin Thomas & Megan Lee Candolfi Français
In the Pacific Islands, gender inequality and gender-based violence are being exacerbated by climate ...
November 13, 2019By: Marcia V. J. Kran Español
UN treaty bodies need to monitor and follow-up on the recommendations they make to states. Some have ...
November 7, 2019By: Alexandre Sommer-Schaechtele Français
The indigenous peoples of French Guiana used an urgent procedure of the UN’s Committee on the Elimination ...
November 6, 2019By: Katharine G. Young Español | Français
Constitutional entrenchment is only part of the battle for recognition of economic and social rights, ...
November 5, 2019By: Rachel Lopéz Español
Guatemalan citizens must unite to resist the efforts of Guatemala’s clandestine powers to dismantle ...
November 1, 2019By: Ana Zbona & Phil Bloomer
A lawsuit exposing the use of surveillance software to target human rights defenders shows the urgent ...
October 31, 2019By: Koldo Casla & Kath Dalmeny Español
Some people believe that there is a lot of skepticism towards international human rights in England, ...
October 30, 2019By: Kristin Sandvik Español | العربية
Children are becoming the objects of a multitude of monitoring devices—what are the possible negative ...
October 29, 2019By: Kamelia Kemileva Français
The UN treaty bodies receive thousands of individual complaints, but the secretariat that deals with ...
October 25, 2019By: Marianna A. Romero Español
Venezuela’s election to the Human Rights Council despite UN scrutiny—including by Treaty Bodies—of human ...
October 24, 2019By: César Rodríguez-Garavito العربية | Español
In addition to asking whether or not human rights reinforce the status quo, we should address the following ...
October 23, 2019By: Małgorzata Szuleka Español
The democratic community in Poland is under threat, but activists and judges who use the constitution ...
October 22, 2019By: Kseniya Kirichenko Español | Русский
The UN treaty bodies are increasingly scrutinizing states’ treatment of LGBTI persons, and this is having ...
October 15, 2019By: Navi Pillay Español | Français
The human rights treaty bodies are central to human rights reform efforts, but are burdened by inefficiencies. ...
October 11, 2019By: Maysa Zorob Español
A new version of the UN’s draft treaty on business and human rights strengthens its protection focus, ...
October 10, 2019By: Harsh Mander Español | Français | العربية
With the world facing increasing division and hatred, the human rights community must face this lack ...
October 3, 2019By: Salma Houerbi Español | العربية
Weak labour legislation in Turkey, paired with brands that put profits before people, is causing harmful ...
October 2, 2019By: Alexandre Abdal & Andréa Pineda & Fernando do Amaral Nogueira & Juana Kweitel Español | Português
The existing rejection and distrust of human rights among high-income Brazilians result mostly from ...
September 26, 2019By: Ranit Mishori & Karen Naimer & Thomas McHale Español | Français
For such a small piece of tissue, the hymen has gained outsized status as the arbiter of virginity. ...
September 24, 2019By: Hurst Hannum Français | Español
Declining support for human rights is partly attributable to the expansion of the concept to cover all ...
September 19, 2019By: Karine Belarmino & Marie Schaedel Español
Control over land management may be more important than mere legal entitlement when it comes to women’s ...
September 17, 2019By: Ximena Casas Isaza Español | Français
Abortion providers working in national contexts where the law is poorly understood and abortion is socially ...
September 12, 2019By: Tatiana Tolsteneva Español | Русский
Russia’s non-profit sector has been playing a constant game of catch-up—can new media technologies break ...
September 4, 2019By: Jamie Woodhouse Español | العربية
If we grant rights in order to reduce suffering, should we grant rights to everything that can suffer?
August 29, 2019By: Howard Lavine & James Ron Español
Religious leaders can help convince the most ethnocentric and authoritarian American voters to oppose ...
August 27, 2019By: Beatriz Romero Cruzat Español
Chile has long held a moderate political tradition in Latin America, but recent trends point to alarming ...
August 22, 2019By: Flavia Fascendini Español | Français
The Universal Periodic Review can highlight that online rights are an essential part of human rights ...
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