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By: Philip Seufert
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Human rights–based governance frameworks are urgently needed to prevent data-driven exploitation, which will worsen inequalities in food and agriculture.

By: Kelly Matheson
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With the success of efforts to secure climate-based rights internationally, now is the time to push for the most up-to-date scientific evidence to inform climate ...

 

By: Ezio Costa Cordella
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An animal justice approach that respects all life while recognizing significant differences could transform humans’ relationship with nature.

By: Jeff Sebo
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A consensus on animal justice may already be achievable, but it should aim to include not only some but all animals.

By: Andreas Johannes Ullmann
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Despite accounts of backlash against the international human rights system, research on state compliance shows cause for optimism.

By: Anika Baset
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Social inequalities will intensify in a climate-affected world. The right to an adequate standard of living can protect those most vulnerable to the impacts of ...

 

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler & Ana Brandusescu & Will Orr
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At Rightscon 2023, practitioners provided recommendations for mitigating the negative influence of funders on nonprofits.

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler & Ana Brandusescu & Will Orr
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At Rightscon 2023, practitioners discussed the complex role of autonomy, dependence, and accountability in funder–grantee relationships. In this first part, we ...

 

By: Andrea Padilla Villarraga
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Legislative and judicial developments in favor of animals in Latin America have been fragmented, but there have been notable and pragmatic advances.

By: Rafsi Albar
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To redress its history of human rights violations, the Indonesian government needs to hold responsible actors to account, including those still in power.

By: Emma Lygnerud Boberg
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A transparent, democratic recovery effort in Ukraine will require adequate and coordinated funding for the independent media sector.

By: Meg Satterthwaite & Katarina Sydow
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When autocrats undermine justice systems, democratizing the courts can help build back trust.

By: Dale Jamieson
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A philosopher prioritizes agency and Anthropocene concerns in a theory of animal justice.

By: Mara Tissera Luna
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Leadership by Haitian civil society would create a more effective and liberatory approach to international aid.

By: Kristina Stoeckl
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Drawing on transnational far-right strategies, Russia is using the language of rights to pursue a nationalist, anti-democratic agenda.

By: Jacqueline Rowe & Saba Mah'derom
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Internet shutdowns are used to quash dissent and conceal abuses. The rights community should combat this authoritarian tactic.

By: Katelyn Cioffi
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A legal challenge to Uganda’s national digital ID system may set an important precedent for human rights enforcement in the era of digital government.

By: David Bilchitz
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To respect all animals’ diverse ways of flourishing, we need a consistent set of moral principles that hold up across practical scenarios.

By: Janika Spannagel
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Focusing only on defenders’ physical integrity risks undermining the very idea of supporting agents of human rights change.

By: Geoff Dancy & Christopher J. Fariss
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After collecting and analyzing recent search data from 109 countries in five different language groups, we found little to no evidence that people are becoming ...

 

By: Kate Bermingham
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Monarchs hold sway over 43 states worldwide; the UK should take the lead in dismantling this archaic system of unaccountable power.

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler
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The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence is fueling a probabilistic turn that shifts the focus from past to future, from individual to group behavior, ...

 

By: Jens Boel
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Archives can be—and often are—instrumental in the fight against impunity.

By: Antonio Gutierrez & Felipe Mesel & Emese Ilyes & Melania Chiponda
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In both Latin America and in North America mutual aid movements swelled in response to the collective trauma and collective learning of the pandemic.

By: Jayne Huckerby & Sarah Knuckey
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Instead of blunt rejection, the global new Right is pursuing a project of so-called rights renewal.

By: Raymond A. Smith
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The proposed abbreviation is more accurate, more inclusive, and ultimately more universal.

By: Marie Juul Petersen  & Dmytro Vovk
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The oppression of religious minorities often goes hand in hand with discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

By: Marco Perolini
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States around the world should repeal discriminatory and archaic laws that reproduce historical inequalities and patterns of oppression.

By: Esha Bhandari
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Any attempts to regulate the content produced by generative AI run the risk of restricting protected expression.

By: Matt Bartlett
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Any legal framework aiming to corral generative AI systems, including frameworks grounded on protecting human rights, will need to reckon with technological nuances.

By: Sean Rehaag
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AI does have the capacity to be used to help asylum seekers and other people on the move, despite its current uses.

By: Ilia Savelev
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The risks of AI-powered oppression of sexual and gender diversity are already here.

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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This new series examines the potential effects of AI in the human rights field.

By: Koldo Casla
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It is now more urgent than ever to redefine the contours of property and its social function in light of economic and social rights.

By: Paula Alejandra Camargo Páez
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The uneven effects of climate change can be traced back to colonial legacies that still linger in mitigation and adaptation actions.

By: Satang Nabaneh & Shelley Inglis & Lee Waldorf
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Many constitutions contain what are known as “clawback clauses,” which exempt personal law from their guarantees of nondiscrimination.

By: Henryk Szadziewski
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As of March 2023, delays in most Uyghur cases across the asylum system are due to court date scheduling.

By: Benjamin Davis
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The West ultimately needs to be more reflective about how we live our lives in a very ordinary, everyday sense.

By: A. Kayum Ahmed
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The possibility of multiplanetary existence raises fascinating questions about the universality of the human rights framework.

By: Başak Çalı & Esra Demir-Gürsel
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Turkey shares important similarities with global trends with respect to human rights appropriation practices at the expense of women’s and LGBTQI+ rights.

By: Farrah Ahmed
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The Indian government uses strategies to disguise its authoritarian nationalist actions through constitutional rights.

By: OGR Admin

In this Up Close, a number of leading scholars examine the authoritarian turn of various governments, looking particularly at how they borrow and misappropriate ...

 

By: Daniel Braaten
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The Chinese government’s impact on the international human rights regime is not well documented and a recommitment from the US to human rights is not fully clear ...

 

By: Devon Kearney
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Recent years have seen backsliding on our common, global commitment to human rights, and climate change threatens to further erode that support.

By: Joscha Jelitzki
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An initiative to foster a campus environment in which no one, Jewish or not, has to be afraid of being different required a human rights mindset.

By: Andrés Besserer Rayas & Maria Fernanda Orozco Naranjo & Sebastian Portilla Parra & Gabriela del Pilar Thiriat Pedraza
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Arbitrary cancellation of nationality has serious sociolegal effects that are being documented in Colombia.

By: William Nee
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As the Chinese government seeks “center stage,” its compliance with its human rights obligations should be there as well.

 
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