October 28, 2021 Lifting the veil of secrecy on rights abuses caused by Brazil’s mining industry Mining companies must tackle human rights abuses or risk communities saying no to their operations. By Athayde Motta & Miles Litvinoff Español Português
October 25, 2021 Haitian migration through the Western hemisphere: a racial (in)justice analysis A transnational racial justice lens is essential to understand recent Haitian migration through the Americas, but also to develop any future policy responses. By S. Priya Morley Español
October 22, 2021 Timeful strategies for Indigenous self-determination: lessons from the Purhépecha How a temporal perspective affects the struggles for Indigenous self-determination By Angel Gabriel Cabrera Silva Español
October 20, 2021 The urgent need for policy coherence to achieve rights-respecting climate action Legal action should not substitute a holistic approach to green transition. By Els Heile Español
October 18, 2021 History shows that UN country-specific Special Procedures are tools for positive change History has shown that despite strong opposition to Special Procedures, they have been valuable mechanisms for catalyzing positive changes at the local level. By Mariana Montoya & Marc Limon Français Español
October 15, 2021 Pandemic Insights OGR has asked several leaders in the human rights community to share a learning, a reflection, or an insight from these unique times. Read or listen to them here. By OGR Admin Español
October 15, 2021 Moving fast on climate: the urgent need to tackle short-lived climate pollutants in Latin America and the Caribbean The human rights framework can buttress the responses needed to address the emergency, providing tools to guarantee human dignity and the right to a healthy environment. By Viviana Krsticevic Español
October 13, 2021 Embracing change for a better civic space While civic action and space are under relentless pressure worldwide, different dimensions of a more positive future are being built and fought for across the world. By Tom Gerald Daly Español
October 11, 2021 Abolition of the death penalty for drug offences is a mission possible The death penalty for drug offenses appears to be on the rise. By Ricky Gunawan Español
October 8, 2021 Tunisian human rights activism in the 1960s: Revolutionaries, intellectuals and prisoners of conscience One should be cautious when conflating today’s human rights understanding with that of the past when narrating human rights history. By Marc Schade-Poulsen Français Español
October 6, 2021 The UN Human Rights Council dithers while Earth Burns It is essential to translate human rights principles and standards into practicable pragmatic measures that can provide that coherence, legitimacy, and sustainability. By Peter Splinter Español
October 4, 2021 Reimagining civic space for hope While civic action and civic space are under relentless pressure worldwide, different dimensions of a more positive future are being built and fought for in communities ... By Tom Gerald Daly Español
October 1, 2021 The challenges of sharing the unknown history of the South African constitution A new online archive and exhibition tells the little-known stories and behind-the-scenes challenges of the country's constitution. By Lauren Segal & Lwando Xaso Español Français
September 30, 2021 The doughnut approach: how to climatize human rights If human rights are to remain relevant in the Anthropocene, budding theoretical, doctrinal, and advocacy efforts to address the climate emergency need to be expanded. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
September 28, 2021 Chile’s constitutional moment is an opportunity to enhance social rights To do justice to such an ambitious goal, the Chilean process should not leave anyone behind. This is a historic occasion to make the case for social rights. By Koldo Casla Español
September 24, 2021 From the domestic to the international: Jamaica’s 1961 human rights policy How the domestic trends of human rights policy in the Global South can provide a deeper understanding of modern international rights practice By Steven L. B. Jensen Español Français
September 22, 2021 Of time and the practice of human rights in the digital age Reflecting on the internet as a constitutive site for rights work may allow us to usefully open the internet to a different kind of scrutiny. By Alice M. Miller Español
September 20, 2021 Replacing monopolies with impact rewards Impact funds would make the business of innovation more cost-effective and enable a triple win for the potential beneficiaries of innovations. By Thomas Pogge Español Deutsch Français Italiano
September 17, 2021 More than a united kingdom: how Botswana became a powerful example for human rights in Africa While some economists and political scientists praise Botswana as a ‘success story’, the country provides more than just a tale of growth and stability. By James Kirby Français Español
September 16, 2021 Personal resources and those of family and friends, not the State, guarantee ESCR in Jalisco The Mexican State failed in its obligation to guarantee access to human rights for millions because it did not have a sufficient social security infrastructure ... By Alejandro Anaya Muñoz & David Foust Rodríguez & Carlos Moreno Jaimes Español
September 13, 2021 The moral test of vaccine justice The forces arrayed against vaccine justice—monopolies, charity, and individualism—stand in the way of a just response to other shared global problems. By Jonathan Cohen Español Français
September 10, 2021 Women and the UN: a new history of women’s international human rights Critical human rights theory has problematized the dominant narrative of European, western male rights. By Rebecca Adami & Dan Plesch Español العربية Français
September 9, 2021 The vitality of human rights in turbulent times If attention is directed towards the dynamism of social movements and human rights activism around the world, a different set of views of the cathedral emerges. By Gráinne de Burca Español
September 6, 2021 How the pandemic affects women’s rights in Uruguay Under the guise of containing the pandemic, government-sanctioned violations of women’s rights in maternal care may quickly become the norm. By Romina Gallardo Duarte Español
September 3, 2021 Reflections from a human rights clinic in the midst of Covid-19 Essex’s HRC Clinic had to adapt to a challenging scenario under COVID-19, with physical distancing rules and human interaction exclusively online. By Koldo Casla Español
September 1, 2021 The forgotten Islamic human rights document It is important to look at the CDHR as a symbolic document rather than a human rights instrument. By Nora Noralla Español العربية
August 30, 2021 Three ways to change our “digital future” The digital world needs to be shared with and understood by the public in order to define together what our “collective digital rights” are. By Bibbi Abruzzini & Sanaâ Nadir & Yohan Cambet Español Français Italiano
August 25, 2021 Breaking binaries and intergenerational reciprocity How can we truly value the experiences and perspectives of all generations that are so needed to forge our collective liberation? By Marisa Viana & Ruby Johnson Español Français Português
August 23, 2021 How the global human rights community can further push drug policy reform After a recent study revealed that drug law enforcement often targets poor people and vulnerable groups, the UN Working Group calls for the decriminalization of ... By Ricky Gunawan Español
August 20, 2021 The ban on the practice of ‘curing queer sexuality’ in India Although the Mental Health Care Act can be invoked to provide limited protective measures to the LGBTQIA+ community, a separate law is essential to entirely eradicate ... By Sarthak Gupta Español
August 18, 2021 Who will defend the defenders in Turkey? In today’s Turkey, lawyers themselves are being targeted—just for practicing their profession in accordance with the law. By Netherlands Helsinki Committee Español Türkçe
August 16, 2021 More than lack of capacity: active impunity in Mexico Impunity in Mexico is not accidental, random, or involuntary. Instead, impunity results from a chain of actions taken with the express purpose of undermining investigations. By Patricia Cruz Marín & James Cavallaro & Alejandro Anaya Muñoz Español
August 13, 2021 Particular universals: human rights depend on identity politics Romanticizing the universal at the expense of local, subjective truths fails to account for how we arrive at global rights in the first place. By Amyn B. Sajoo Español
August 11, 2021 Sustaining grassroots activism through COVID-19 and beyond Here’s what the Fund for Global Human Rights learned from its second COVID-19 impact survey—and how the funding community can better support the crucial work that ... By David Mattingly Español
July 30, 2021 New regime, new patriarchy: the İstanbul Convention at stake The withdrawal decision is the most recent step on the part of the ruling circles in their policy practices against gender equality, mostly based on Islamic moralistic ... By Simten Coşar Türkçe Español
July 28, 2021 The inflated cost of defending human rights The impact of lockdowns has been costly in more ways than one. By Meredith Veit Español Français Português हिन्दी Русский
July 27, 2021 A cautionary lesson from Italy: commercializing healthcare can kill At the latest G20 Global Health Summit, global health leaders seemed to have forgotten one of the most costly lessons of the pandemic. By Rosa Pavanelli & Rossella De Falco Español Italiano
July 26, 2021 A call to the human rights movement for going broader and refining the interdisciplinary tools to push for dignity Increasing the breadth of actors involved in the common platform of fundamental rights ideals would strengthen the human rights movement’s ability to hold its ground ... By Viviana Krsticevic Español
July 23, 2021 Why the world should follow Scotland’s embrace of a human-rights based approach The Scottish report stands out for being forward-looking, distinguishing it from piecemeal and reactive approaches found amongst “advanced” democracies and countries ... By Slava Balan & John Packer Español Français Русский العربية
July 22, 2021 Boycotting the Olympic Games is not enough The history of human rights efforts around the Games is mostly a history of failure. By Barbara Keys Français Español العربية
July 21, 2021 The urgency of combating stigmatization and criminalization of human rights defenders We should continue to advocate for imprisoned HRDs whose rights have been most restricted, as well as focus on preventative protection to ensure that their conditions ... By Meredith Veit Español Português हिन्दी Français Русский
July 20, 2021 Adapting tech tools for human rights monitoring: lessons from Burundi Tech tools can provide great opportunities and challenges to document human rights violations, notably in contexts of acute crisis. By Vincent Ploton & Connie Moon Sehat Español Français
July 19, 2021 We should be teaching for human rights, not teaching about human rights: a response to Agostini Agostini neither offers a solution to what human rights defenders are supposed to do differently nor does he offer examples of how identity-based movements undermine ... By Claudio Schuftan Español
July 16, 2021 Rethinking past and future justice “We should certainly pursue bigger truths and more robust histories, better accounts of the reproduction of injustice, and better remedies for it.” By Zinaida Miller Español
July 14, 2021 Risking your life for human rights during a pandemic Limitations on fundamental freedoms have been purposely and disproportionately used against activists who have refused to put their work on pause. By Meredith Veit Español Français हिन्दी Português Русский
July 12, 2021 Social rights constitutionalism in interwar Ireland: for a people’s history Interwar Ireland offers a rich case-study of popular movements contesting economic and social rights ‘from below.’ By Thomas Murray Español Français العربية
July 9, 2021 What the French Revolution can tell us about the history of social rights Achieving a consensus on the terms of social obligation in a society based on equality is both complex and extremely important. By Charles Walton Español العربية Français
July 7, 2021 Human rights open frontier: resistance and resilience How much does the experience with humanitarian intervention account for the questioning of human rights, and to what extent is this experience central to cutting ... By Ruti Teitel Español
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