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40,000 people arbitrarily deprived of their nationality in Colombia

Arbitrary cancellation of nationality has serious sociolegal effects that are being documented in Colombia.

A UN review shows the limits of China’s loud microphone communications strategy

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

Human rights: Ideology, illusion, source of hope?

There is no reason whatsoever that can be derived from the theories of evolution and human psychology that undermines the case for human rights.

Episode 2: Challenges to international accountability in Ukraine

Guest: Pablo De Greiff

Racial hatred on the rise in Tunisia: What is the role of digital platforms?

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 ...

India should criminalize the use of 'virginity tests'

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

Venezuela: Flourishing in the abyss

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

To renew the International Criminal Court, look to the regional rights institutions

The ICC can do better by learning from regional human rights institutions.

A seat at the table: Shifting narratives on human rights defenders at the United Nations

Stories told at the UN about human rights defenders have a major impact on how they are perceived and supported on the ground.

Seizing the moment to shake up philanthropy

Five trends that are reorganizing the way funding agencies can work for philanthropic causes.

Forensic aesthetics and Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project

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

The trivialization of human rights

Virtual activism makes some human rights causes visible but reduces engagement on the street.

Exploring narrative practices for broad-based movements in contexts of democratic decline

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

The climate emergency at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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 ...

When the Ferguson uprising came to Geneva

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

Exploring the scope of ecofeminism in the biodiversity-climate nexus

The need to include ecofeminism in climate and biodiversity discussions is now more crucial than ever.

Backlash against individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Rwanda’s case illustrates the risks of withdrawing from regional human rights bodies.

Solidarity, not charity

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 ...

Activists face police surveillance outside protest settings in Minnesota

Protesters of African descent, victims of police brutality, and their families need accountability and healing to find justice.

When human rights go backwards: four lessons

What can we learn from the setbacks suffered by human rights?

The (mis)appropriation of human rights

Some human rights discourses have been appropriated by actors who go against human rights principles.

What is true academic solidarity?

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

The flawed case against more-than-human rights

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.

Small Data for sustainability: AI ethics and the environment

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 ...

Backsliding on children’s participation rights within a protection discourse

Victimhood can easily disempower children and silence their voices as well as their claims to human rights, particularly their participation rights.

Gendered juvenile detention in the Philippines

In Duterte’s war on drugs, women victims have been largely invisible.

The Human Rights Council’s failure to protect Uyghurs in China—for now

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

Deprivation of liberty: when is it acceptable?

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

Participatory baseline water study improves scientific data and strengthens community power

An interdisciplinary research team conducted the first community-owned baseline study on water in an area included in a mining permit in northern Haiti.

Promoting women’s rights: Introducing the Women’s Rights Recommendation Compliance Explorer

A new tool helps people track recommendations and compliance about women’s rights in Europe.

Hollow rights victories? Dutch struggles against digital injustice

Algorithms calculating the probability of fraud were overwhelmingly and wrongly targeting immigrant groups.

Episode 1: A historic climate win at the UN Human Rights Committee

Guest: Hélène Tigroudja

So much about your sustainability, my people are dying

Recipe for better communication of the rights of women and girls

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

Human rights in the post-truth era

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 ...

Natural resources and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace

To build gender-just sustainable peace, post-war states must make deep changes to address extractivism and inequality.

Land grabs in Haiti are on the rise, while mining poses another threat

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 ...

Grassroots justice organizations are deploying research to stem the tide of injustice

Legal empowerment has the potential to improve our ability to counter threats to human rights.

Caring workspaces for human rights

Defending human rights workers’ working conditions based on an ethic of care is one of the best ways to foster resilience and well-being.

Transforming the climate crisis into opportunity: A step towards gender equality

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 ...

Biodignity: Rethinking life and respect in the Anthropocene

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 ...

More than human rights: What can we learn from trees, animals, and fungi?

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

People’s participation in high-level decision-making spaces on regional migration

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

Children’s right to climate justice

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 ...

Countering the impact of discrimination against pregnant women exposed to high temperatures with human rights

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

“I had an abortion thanks to a video on TikTok”: digital activism and social change

Social networks can help social change in unexpected ways.

Fragility, climate change, and the uncertain lives of agro-pastoralist women and girls in East Africa

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

The gold standard of the Lima Programme

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