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By: Raymond A. Smith
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The term “non-binary” has entered some UN reports and media, but there is still a lack of recognition of this identity in human rights law.

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler & Will Orr & Ana Brandusescu
Español

Nonprofits have to balance securing funds and staying true to their mission. How can we foster autonomy among organizations?

By: Sébastien Lorion
Español | Français | العربية

New research unearths comprehensive data on the global diffusion of national human rights action plans since the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.

By: Umyra Ahmad
Español | Français

At the latest Human Rights Council session, anti-rights language started making its way into some resolutions under discussion.

By: María Alejandra Torres García
Español | Kreyòl

Land grabs in Haiti cause women to further suffer violations of environmental and women’s rights and exacerbate climate vulnerability.

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler & Will Orr & Ana Brandusescu
Español

Nonprofits’ autonomy from their funders is particularly important in the digital rights space.

By: Sarthak Gupta
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In a historic rule, the Supreme Court of India aimed to protect the constitutional rights of sex workers in the country.

By: Ramona Vijeyarasa & José-Miguel Bello y Villarino
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The current absence of adequate regulation by states to protect human rights from the deployment of AI systems is, in itself, a violation of human rights.

By: Tariro Tandi & Immaculate Mugo
Español | Français

Funders must rethink their principles and practices to ensure that they operate on participation, trust, and mutual understanding instead of power and privilege.

By: Vincent Ploton
Español | Français | العربية

Michelle Bachelet will not seek a second term as High Commissioner for Human Rights, kicking off a race to find a suitable replacement.

By: Johanna Gusman
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The continual failure of governments to adequately address the climate crisis constitutes a violation of children’s rights and Pacific youth know this better than ...

 

By: Jacqueline Parisi
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For a country whose founding universalist principles are imbued with humanitarian rhetoric, it’s astounding how egregiously égalité has been violated.

By: Melania Chiponda & Emese Ilyes
Español | Français

Respect for human rights should be founded on recognizing and honoring differences.

By: Marisa Hutchinson & Jhannel Tomlinson
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For many Global South activists and communities, the pledges and actions agreed upon at COP26 were too late, inadequate, and exclusive.

By: Jane Chung
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In constructing new paradigms, our visioning should not be limited to our definition of the problem.

By: Jordan T. Jones
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Michael Kleinman of Amnesty International USA reflects on the urgency of taking action against non-disclosure agreements.

By: Lucas Paulson
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The invitation at the heart of "Narrative Spices" isn’t about specific strategies or approaches, but about cultivating habits that enable curiosity, exploration, ...

 

By: Thalia Viveros Uehara
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The Paris Agreement calls on states to consider their human rights obligations in climate adaptation.

By: Claire Thomas & Mohamed Eno
Español | Somali

While the unveiling of Somalia's president helps reduce the risk of conflict, the hosting of another ‘election’ on a discriminatory basis is far from ideal.

By: Jessica Fjeld
Español

If work life balance needs to be thrown out the window, what’s the sturdier, more supportive and humane alternative?

By: Jonathan Sharp
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Contractual arrangements, insurance, and tort law, all private law tools, fail to address the awful threat of hazardous substance leaks because they are unable ...

 

By: Courtney Hillebrecht
Español | Русский | Українська

The stakes of Russia’s withdrawal are exceedingly high—for past and present victims and for the Court itself.

By: Tynesha McHarris & Swatee Deepak
Español

At the center of almost every social justice movement are cis- and trans- women and girls, and non-binary folks of color leading the charge.

By: Bassam Khawaja & Rebecca Riddell
Español

Exclusive new data shows skyrocketing public expenditure on private health facilities in Kenya.

By: Andrés Zaragoza
Español

If we want to constructively engage companies, business associations or investors on human rights issues, we must recognize who our interlocutor is.

By: John Morrison
Español

Although the plan was initiated by the government, it seems likely that private enterprises will be asked to play a significant role at all stages of the process.

By: Claire Methven O’Brien & Rebekah Wilson
Español

The operation of care facilities for vulnerable children by private-equity backed companies poses threats to human rights.

By: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky 
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The prevailing approach to understanding the pandemic overlooks the fact that the pandemic is a complex phenomenon, in which the social and political play as important ...

 

By: Everaldo Lamprea Montealegre
Español

Despite Big Pharma's decisive role in the transformation of the right to health, it continues to play a secondary role in the literature.

By: Kathryn Hampton
Español | Українська

While it is imperative that parties to the conflict must stop using landmines, we are also faced with the question of how to respond when they do not.

By: Sarah Damoff
Español

As a matter of human rights, our policies must consider child migrants by their status of child before their status of migrant or litigant.

By: Giada Girelli
Español

Is justice really ‘just’ when it puts to death the vulnerable and the powerless?

By: Garth Meintjes
Español

We would do better to deepen our understanding of human rights as a kind of reference narrative that can help to guide decision-making in the face of radical uncertainty.

By: Ohene Ampofo-Anti & Camila Barretto Maia & Joshua Castellino & Pillkyu Hwang
Español | Français | العربية

Institutional failures enabling global COVID inequity can also deepen structural discrimination.

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español

How a particular kind of science fiction resonates with a wide audience and can enrich human rights thinking and practice

By: Steven L. B. Jensen & Charles Walton
Español | Français

A deeper history of social rights can help us identify the factors that have impeded the human rights project.

By: Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría
Español

This data column examines the threats to journalists worldwide.

By: Jacqueline Rowe
Español | Kiriol

Most major platforms and services are still only available or functional in a small number of geopolitically dominant languages.

By: Maysa Zorob & Hector Candray
Español | Français

For the first time in its history, the Court explicitly stipulates clear business and human rights standards to be met by states and companies.

By: Dominique Calañas
Español

The human rights movement needs new ways of working which may even sound a little far-fetched.

By: Mimi Hapig
Español

The current expressions of solidarity by various European countries towards refugees from Ukraine should reignite the discourse about Europe’s response to refugees ...

 

By: Emilie Helene Holm
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Across the globe, the transition to digital media is disrupting media ecosystems, creating news deserts where local communities can no longer access information ...

 

By: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky  & Francisco Cantamutto & María Julia Eliosoff Ferrero & Ana Fraile
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The video documentary series on "IMF and Human Rights" and the podcast "Promise is Debt" are political and cultural tools to limit the control of finance over our ...

 

By: Koldo Casla
Español

Putin’s aggression requires a human rights strategy that accounts for existing power relationships, and attempts to steer the balance in the direction of peace.

By: Gabriela Tsudik
Español | Русский

The women’s movement is yet to center the specific concerns of poor and unhoused women.

By: Thaynah Gutiérrez Gomes
Español | Português

We must seek technologies from the ancestral past of native peoples and connect them with the knowledge from the urban peripheries.

By: Peter Splinter
Español

The new Special Rapporteur on climate change should avoid the “blah, blah, blah” that has characterized far too much discussion.

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