September 19, 2018
By: Charu Lata Hogg
العربية

A new report suggests sexual violence against men and boys in widespread in the Syria conflict. And ...

September 18, 2018
By: Almut Rochowanski
Русский

After years of coverage about how the “foreign agent law” would spell the end of freedom of association ...

September 12, 2018
By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español

The future of human rights as a frame of justice depends on our capacity to create, detect, and foster ...

September 11, 2018
By: Keetie Roelen
Español

Non-invasive and non-punitive interventions that draw on positive emotions have promising potential ...

September 5, 2018
By: Gabriela Kletzel & Angel Gabriel Cabrera Silva
Español

An innovative intervention by international experts in Mexico invigorated the work of human rights organizations ...

September 4, 2018
By: Bernard Shen
Español

Instead of choosing between humans-only systems and AI systems, leveraging the best of human values ...

August 30, 2018
By: Alice Cruz
Español

Women affected by leprosy in India and beyond face high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, ...

August 29, 2018
By: Saul J. Takahashi
Español

Human rights arguments for decriminalizing drug use are often flawed, and in essence assert a right ...

August 27, 2018
By: Samuel Nesner & Ellie Happel
Français

Social movements in Haiti are reimagining justice in order to fight back against exploitation by the ...

August 24, 2018
By: Stefania Kapronczay & Anna Kertész
Español

Dropping defensive tactics and reframing human rights in a relatable way are both key to responding ...

August 22, 2018
By: Joel R. Pruce
Español

Caring about the rights of distant others was once fashionable but, as walls go up and societies retract, ...

August 21, 2018
By: Gastón Chillier
Español

Shifting to local community funding is possible in Latin America, as a case in Argentina clearly shows. ...

August 16, 2018
By: Isabel Laura Ebert
Français | Deutsch

Technology can help to prevent conflict, but it can also facilitate human rights abuses, and companies ...

August 16, 2018
By: Katrin Kinzelbach & Janika Spannagel
Español | Français

Changing the way we document human rights abuses—such as paying more attention to soft repression—could ...

August 15, 2018
By: Sherif Elsayed-Ali
Español | Français

A new set of principles—the Toronto Declaration—aims to put human rights front and centre in the development ...

August 14, 2018
By: Todd Landman 

Abolitionism was arguably the first human rights movement, but historical waves of anti-slavery activism ...

August 9, 2018
By: Molly Land & Theresa Harris
Español

Human rights researchers are seeking new ways to establish facts, creating new opportunities for collaboration ...

August 8, 2018
By: Ivor Chipkin
Español

Powerful civil society coalitions have re-emerged in South Africa, using litigation, social mobilization, ...

August 7, 2018
By: Dimitrina Petrova
Русский

Human rights NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe are facing increased hostility from governments and ...

August 2, 2018
By: Erin Kitchell
Español

Legal empowerment can be transformative across a wide range of issues, which can sometimes make such ...

August 1, 2018
By: Richard Wingfield
Español

The issue of content moderation in online platforms has been missing in debates on business and human ...

July 31, 2018
By: Kathryn Sikkink
Español | Português

The frame of constant crisis has negative implications for human rights, especially when questions of ...

July 31, 2018
By: Edwin Rekosh
Español

A wave of unjustified government regulation is threatening NGO operations, and proactive responses are ...

July 25, 2018
By: Jonas Wolff
Español

Instead of letting governments define the terms, CSOs need to take “foreign agent” allegations seriously ...

July 24, 2018
By: Khaled Mansour
العربية | Español

In the last few years, the Egyptian government has launched an unprecedented crackdown on civil society, ...

July 19, 2018
By: Rafael Uzcátegui
Español

As elected governments increasingly launch power grabs and smear campaigns against their critics, NGOs ...

July 18, 2018
By: Rayyan Dabbous

Trends in Google searches show that most internet users are interested in the human rights during crises ...

July 17, 2018
By: Shreya Sen
हिन्दी

Legal empowerment enables poor and marginalized communities to be partners in development and decision-making, ...

July 12, 2018
By: Liam Mahony

Although UN human rights bodies have criticized the persecution of the Rohingya, UN agencies inside ...

July 11, 2018
By: Aryeh Neier
Español

Naming and shaming may be less important as a foreign policy tool to promote rights, but the careful ...

July 5, 2018
By: Salil Shetty

Human rights have always been subject to efforts at misappropriation and manipulation for political ...

July 5, 2018
By: Juan Auz
Español

Activism against environmental exploitation in Ecuador requires going up against titanic powers, and ...

June 29, 2018
By: Brian Root  & Rachel Schmidt

Situations of inhumane treatment and abuses of power are where we need human rights the most, and the ...

June 28, 2018
By: César Rodríguez-Garavito & Krizna Gomez
Español | العربية

With populist leaders stoking nationalism and violating basic rights, traditional advocacy strategies ...

June 27, 2018
By: Emre Eren Korkmaz
Türkçe | Español

Many governments have released official strategies to promote AI systems leaving the public with few ...

June 27, 2018
By: Michelle Lau-Burke & Callie Strickland

Technology can raise awareness and spark collective action, but it can also deepen gender divides and ...

June 27, 2018
By: Marc Limon

The US said it quit the UN Human Rights Council because it couldn’t reform it – but though others share ...

June 26, 2018
By: Dilek Kurban

Erdoğan will likely succeed in removing the only genuine political opposition in the Turkish Parliament. ...

June 26, 2018
By: Scott Leckie
မြန်မာဘာသာ

Countries exposed to the worst impacts of climate change, like Myanmar, should consider establishing ...

June 21, 2018
By: Jennifer Radloff
العربية | Français | Español

Strengthening the resilience of the women’s rights movement requires feminists to place digital security ...

June 20, 2018
By: Samir Goswami
Español

We need to act upon the insights that we glean from AI: technology is not a replacement for the political ...

June 19, 2018
By: Charu Lata Hogg
العربية | Français | Español

Ten years after sexual violence in war was officially recognized as a threat to peace and security, ...

June 14, 2018
By: James Ron & José Kaire & Archana Pandya & Andrea Martínez
Español

Modest investments into local fundraising capacity could transform the global human rights community ...

June 12, 2018
By: Steven L. B. Jensen
Français | Español

An expanding range of literature examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions, and ...

June 6, 2018
By: Ronald R. Krebs & James Ron

A new law in Israel seeks to stigmatize NGOs that receive foreign funding—but evidence suggests that ...

May 31, 2018
By: Gulika Reddy

Donors, organizations and staff in the peacebuilding and human rights fields need to talk about the ...

May 29, 2018
By: Ignacio Saiz
Español

The challenges that economic inequality poses for human rights are not the death knell for the movement ...

May 24, 2018
By: PeiYao Chen & Natalia Karbowska
Español | Français | العربية | Русский | Українська

A new measurement tool helps social movement actors identify where they are progressing and where they ...