December 11, 2020 From Barbuda to the World: Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency Barbuda is a microcosm of larger trends and issues from climate-induced displacement and disaster capitalism, to the greenwashing of policies that undermine climate ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Elizabeth Donger Español
December 10, 2020 Why women’s right to health and gender equality should be your business In order to address existing inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic, companies should make a serious effort in reducing the gender pay gap, upholding maternity ... By Layanna Martin & Neel Gammelgård Español
December 9, 2020 Coming to grips with populism after Trump Returning to the rule of law and fortifying democracy in the U.S. will best be accomplished by reemphasizing the country’s own democratic and egalitarian values, ... By Gerald L. Neuman Español
December 2, 2020 Changing gender realities in MENA: Fostering social entrepreneurship Social enterprises help change gender realities in MENA to make them more equal. By Melissa Langworthy & Hadeel Qazzaz العربية
November 30, 2020 Protesting for racial justice, met with excessive force McKay and Heisler reflect on the role of medical personnel when treating patients victims of excessive police force. By Donna McKay & Michele Heisler Español
November 25, 2020 Whose gender is it? Progressive versus regressive line-drawing in advocacy work Exclusionary strategies that police the boundaries of terms like “gender” contradict the equality norms upon which human rights are based. By Lara Stemple Español
November 20, 2020 Did they crack the code? The importance of encryption for protest movements 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 Pavlina Pavlova Español
November 19, 2020 Research-practice partnerships in Ethiopia confront sexual violence on campus Confronting sexual violence on campus: research-practice in Ethiopia By Hanna Wedajo & Joan DeJaeghere & Mahlet Yednkachew Français
November 17, 2020 Recent developments in the UN Human Rights Council offer new opportunities to combat racism and police brutality 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 Peter Splinter Español
November 16, 2020 Public health prevention should be at the center of global health action 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 Andrés Constantin & Belén Rios Español
November 12, 2020 Public Education as Reparative Justice in two Settler Colonial Contexts This project seeks to identify opportunities and challenges for educators committed to social justice and healing to critically examine their practices and engage ... By Alejando Baer & George Dalbo & Jillian LaBranche Français
November 11, 2020 The Minnesota Model for human rights: improving both scholarship and practice Long-term partnerships between academics and practitioners can build knowledge that both protects and advances human rights. By Barbara Frey & Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & Joachim Savelsberg & Jessica Stanton Español
November 10, 2020 What are the implications of International Human Rights NGOs moving to the South? 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 Ravindran Daniel Español
November 9, 2020 What can intersectional approaches reveal about experiences of violence? Intersectional methods illuminate the variation in human suffering—with gender only one of several factors shaping experiences with violence. By Dolores Trevizo Español
November 6, 2020 The pandemic of inequality What do inequalities, Covid-19, and human rights have to do with each other? By Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky Español
November 6, 2020 Forget cosmopolitanism: the future of human rights is local It’s time to forget cosmopolitanism: it’s flawed and it impedes clearheaded analysis of human rights backlash. By Michael Goodhart Español
November 3, 2020 Who thinks human rights are respected in the United States, and why does it matter? Based on a representative sample, researchers found that respondents’ assessment of current human and civil rights conditions was strongly correlated with their ... By James Ron Español
November 3, 2020 Teaching young children in a flawed democracy What can we learn from teaching democracy to third graders? By Kevin Hershey Español
October 30, 2020 Making the [In]Visible Powerful: Leveraging Climate Visuals in Courts As visual evidence galvanizes movements around the world and provides irrefutable evidence, climate litigators have an opportunity to leverage phone, drone, and ... By Kelly Matheson Español
October 29, 2020 Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights 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 David Forsythe Español
October 29, 2020 Realising the promise of SDG 16 to promote and protect civic space 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 Deirdre de Burca Español
October 27, 2020 Special economic zones in Pakistan undermine women’s human rights Even though special economic zones promote industrial development, such development comes at the expense of land, labour, and human rights. By Zoha Shahid & Seemal Hameed & Simrah Faruqi Español
October 26, 2020 The #PayUp Campaign is intensifying, but don’t forget the women workers leading the movement 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 Mayisha Begum Español
October 26, 2020 Can the virtual sessions of the African Commission generate more civil society participation? The first ever virtual session, triggered by a pandemic, may have just heralded a potential future of more accessible and inclusive ACHPR sessions. By Japhet Biegon Français
October 23, 2020 “Sitting with the Grief of Survivors”: embracing collegiality in human rights scholarship 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 Laura T. Murphy Español
October 22, 2020 Human Rights: What are the questions that really matter? 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 Jonathan Rowson Español
October 20, 2020 Supreme Court breaks new ground around conscientious objection in South Korea A Korean Supreme Court decision demonstrates long-overdue recognition of religious rights and the right to conscientious objection over military service. By Joe Cho Español
October 19, 2020 Closing the supply-side accountability gap through climate litigation Closing the impunity gap on climate change includes making fossil fuel suppliers accountable for their emissions. By Michelle Jonker-Argueta Español
October 16, 2020 To prevent violence against women, we must move away from victim-based responses Bottom-up, participatory processes can harness place-based expertise and fundamentally shift the way we respond to violence against women. By Chay Brown Español
October 16, 2020 Confronting systemic racism globally Injustices suffered by impoverished communities and communities of color around the world will not be rectified through mere superficial changes in policies but ... By Cristina Palabay & Francisco Mateo Rocael Morales & Miguel Martín Zumalacárregui & Ruben Kondrup Español Français العربية
October 15, 2020 What will it take to overcome the politics of demonization? Organizations like Amnesty International must be willing to embrace solidarity and community organizing to overcome the politics of demonization. By David Griffiths Français
October 14, 2020 Focusing on “identity” can essentialize rather than liberate people By centering resistances on identity, we might unknowingly reproduce the discourses that essentialize it. By Pablo Abitbol Español
October 13, 2020 Advancing sexual and reproductive rights in “scofflaw” countries Using human rights covertly can identify harms otherwise difficult to attribute to root causes—especially in “scofflaw” countries. By Ali Miller & Ann Sarnak Español
October 13, 2020 “Yazidi Female Survivors Law” in Iraq is groundbreaking but not enough The new “Yazidi Female Survivors Law”, while groundbreaking, is too narrow to address the needs of some of Iraq’s most vulnerable communities. By Kristin Smith & Sonali Dhawan العربية
October 9, 2020 Moving beyond allyship with Indigenous communities to defend the environment For environmental and human rights defenders in support of indigenous communities, one of the paths forward is through legal arguments. By Wyatt Gjullin Español Português
October 8, 2020 Everyday Cosmopolitanism: clinging to the faith of common humanity The process of dialogue, reciprocity, and continual struggle in everyday cosmopolitanism is precisely what positions human rights as an effective bulwark against ... By Hussein Banai Español
October 8, 2020 Paternal ignorance in human rights devalues knowledge of marginalized populations 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 William Paul Simmons Español
October 6, 2020 The limits and the promise of trans rights as human rights claims How can human rights push back against regressive global trends in trans rights and sexual and reproductive rights? By Avery R. Everhart Español
October 6, 2020 The “homocolonialist” test for global LGBTQ+ & SOGIE rights strategies There is a major pitfall in assuming that other countries simply need to “catch up” through an expansion of SOGIE rights frameworks. By Momin Rahman العربية
October 5, 2020 When states obscure illegal imprisonments, what is the role of human rights actors? When political prisoners are locked up by states as “terrorists”, how can human rights activists overcome such systematic attempts to deny political motives? By Christoph Steinert العربية
October 5, 2020 Relationship-based cosmopolitanism is key to meaningful but messy rights protections In practice, no one enjoys “international human rights.” In each of our lives, all rights are local and personal. By Kristi Heather Kenyon Setswana Zulu
October 1, 2020 Sex, sexuality, and sexual and reproductive health: the role of human rights 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 Kate Gilmore & Rajat Khosla Español
October 1, 2020 Learning from COVID-19: Advancing Health and Human Rights in Cities It is now clearer than ever that the protection of global health requires universal recognition of everyone’s basic human rights. By Jackie Smith Español
September 30, 2020 Mobilizing empathy for a truly cosmopolitan human rights 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 Shareen Hertel Español
September 29, 2020 The forgotten origins of “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” 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 Lisa Levenstein Español
September 28, 2020 What Kind of Support Do Human Rights Activists Need During COVID-19? 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 David Mattingly Français
September 28, 2020 Can the African regional human rights system preserve ESC rights in a pandemic? 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 Stanley Ibe Français
September 24, 2020 Cosmopolitanism’s abstraction can blind us to damaging hierarchies of humanity 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 Joe Hoover Español
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