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By: Salma Houerbi
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Massive raids and attacks against Black migrants in Tunisia, triggered by a virulent online campaign, recall the urgent need for big tech to scrutinize the human ...

 

By: Sarthak Gupta
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The Supreme Court of India could ban the so-called “virginity tests” in cases of rape and sexual assault.

By: Rafael Uzcátegui
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Venezuela's democratic political and social leadership needs to reflect on its strategies to confront authoritarianism, as well as its strengths and weaknesses, ...

 

By: Jamie O'Connell & James Cavallaro
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The ICC can do better by learning from regional human rights institutions.

By: Sophie Mulphin & Tom Clarke
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Stories told at the UN about human rights defenders have a major impact on how they are perceived and supported on the ground.

By: Liliane Loya & Ellen Sprenger & Lucas Paulson
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Five trends that are reorganizing the way funding agencies can work for philanthropic causes.

By: Tobias Lebens
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New links between literature and human rights open the door to understand evidence and new ways of narrating.

By: Ligia Bolívar
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Virtual activism makes some human rights causes visible but reduces engagement on the street.

By: Julia Roig & James Savage
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The narratives we engage & deploy shape our world. In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories & tactics drive collaboration within & between movements?

By: Thalia Viveros Uehara & Juan Auz
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The Inter-American Court will likely be the first regional human rights tribunal to develop an advisory opinion on the climate emergency, prompting normative effects ...

 

By: Joel R. Pruce
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A shadow report presented to the Committee Against Torture brought police brutality in the US to an international human rights scenario.

By: Susan Ann Samuel
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The need to include ecofeminism in climate and biodiversity discussions is now more crucial than ever.

By: Mihreteab Tsighe Taye
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Rwanda’s case illustrates the risks of withdrawing from regional human rights bodies.

By: Isabell Sluka
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How #LeaveNoOneBehind advocated a reconfiguration of pro-migrant solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic and what we can all learn from it as we face current and ...

 

By: Isabel Huot-Link & Angela Rose Myers & Socorro Topete
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Protesters of African descent, victims of police brutality, and their families need accountability and healing to find justice.

By: Shaharzad Akbar & David Griffiths
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What can we learn from the setbacks suffered by human rights?

By: Gráinne de Burca & Katharine G. Young
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Some human rights discourses have been appropriated by actors who go against human rights principles.

By: Ercüment Çelik
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Academic freedom is being attacked around the world—how can we create solidarity networks against such attacks?

By: Joshua Gellers
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Steps have been taken to widen the scope of the “human” part of human rights—and to rethink the way those more-than-human entities also impact human rights.

By: Elisa Orrù
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Moving away from the currently prevalent Big Data mindset towards a Small Data approach would help improve the sustainability of AI systems and would additionally ...

 

By: Tracey Holland & Yeonjae Hwang
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Victimhood can easily disempower children and silence their voices as well as their claims to human rights, particularly their participation rights.

By: Pamela Camacho & Steffen Jensen
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In Duterte’s war on drugs, women victims have been largely invisible.

By: Michiel Hoornick
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It seemed that economic and political concerns drove several countries to vote against a resolution to discuss the human rights for Uyghurs in China.

By: Patricia Tarre Moser
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A new Advisory Opinion of the IACtHR underscores the penalties that deprive pregnant women, caregivers, elderly and Indigenous persons of their liberty.

By: Ellie Happel & Beth Hoagland & Olriche Jean Pierre & Tess Russo
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An interdisciplinary research team conducted the first community-owned baseline study on water in an area included in a mining permit in northern Haiti.

By: Jillienne Haglund & Courtney Hillebrecht
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A new tool helps people track recommendations and compliance about women’s rights in Europe.

By: Victoria Adelmant & Christiaan van Veen
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Algorithms calculating the probability of fraud were overwhelmingly and wrongly targeting immigrant groups.

By: Natika Kantaria
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A hope-based communications approach to women and girls’ rights can move the narrative beyond problems and challenges and focus on solutions and inspiration.

By: Nicolas Agostini
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As attacks on truth and facts multiply, can activists be falling into the traps of post-truth? Evolutions in activism, communications and politics, as well as in ...

 

By: Carol Cohn & Claire Duncanson
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To build gender-just sustainable peace, post-war states must make deep changes to address extractivism and inequality.

By: Yulanda Lui & Samuel Nesner
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Between 2006 and 2013, the Haitian government granted more than 50 mining permits to three U.S. and Canadian companies to explore land occupied by dozens of communities ...

 

By: Adrian Di Giovanni & Poorvi Chitalkar
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Legal empowerment has the potential to improve our ability to counter threats to human rights.

By: Ezgi Kan & Kerem Çiftçioğlu
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Defending human rights workers’ working conditions based on an ethic of care is one of the best ways to foster resilience and well-being.

By: Madhumita Pandey & Promil Pande
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There is a substantial need to bring marginalized voices into our climate change responses and rebuild eco-feminist archives, as that will impact not only our society ...

 

By: Antonio Pele & Katharina Bauer & Stephen Riley
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Human dignity, when it asserts humanity’s moral primacy in the world, or when it over-values human reason, is symptomatic of humanity’s self-destructive and dominating ...

 

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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Changing the focus from a human-centric approach to human rights will help the movement advance on environmental agendas with an inter-species recognition.

By: Mara Tissera Luna
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Despite long-standing obstacles, Latin American and Caribbean local and national migrant- and diaspora-led associations and organizations have involved themselves ...

 

By: Belinda Walzer
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The landmark case of 2019 where sixteen children and young people from twelve different countries opened the door to think about guaranteeing rights now and in ...

 

By: Thomas Bundschuh
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Poor pregnancy outcomes due to hot temperatures include stillbirth and preterm birth before the completion of 37 weeks of pregnancy.

By: Holly A. Ritchie
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Alongside political and social pressures that agro-pastoralist women and girls face, they must add an urgent one: climate change.

By: Freya Doughty
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What’s next for the Lima Programme, a two-year work program created during COP20 to advance gender-responsive climate policies.

By: Alexandra S. Moore & Sunita Toor
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This series highlights feminist approaches to understanding climate change's impact on women, as well as women's role in addressing those impacts.

By: Lara Bellone d’Altavilla
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Despite important strides made by social movements advocating for women’s rights and led by Arab women, there is still a long way to go to combat gender discrimination.

By: Alicia Ely Yamin & Joel Curtain
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There is a window of opportunity to move toward a model of financing based on Global Public Investment (GPI) to advance health and other social rights.

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