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
July 7, 2021 Future’s past: in search of human rights histories A new series explores different approaches to the temporalities of human rights history and how this relates to their past, present, and future By Steven L. B. Jensen Español Français العربية
July 2, 2021 Why internet freedom should be at the top of the global democracy agenda The internet freedom community is best placed to navigate the balance between cybersecurity and cyber sovereignty, but it needs support from democratic countries ... By Shames Abdelwahab & Mallory Knodel Español
June 30, 2021 Taking climate duties seriously for the protection of the Amazon rainforest: strategic legal choices, science, and human rights This lawsuit not only builds on undisputed constitutional rights, but also argues for a fundamental right to climate stability. By Délton Winter de Carvalho Español Português
June 28, 2021 Sexual violence against males gains interest as an international security threat Acknowledging men and boys as victims and survivors after decades of neglect and skepticism, proves that the Council is increasingly taking the security implications ... By Cristian Ramos Miranda Español
June 25, 2021 Memory and human rights from the voices of women in Argentina On the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina, this project aims to recover the voices of woman that had been previously ... By Mariana Rulli & Lucía Zanfardini Español
June 23, 2021 What do we really talk about when we talk about human rights? The greatest value of international human rights law has been as a language for people, communities, and social movements to use to demand respect for their human ... By James Silk Español
June 17, 2021 The breakthrough moment for LGBTI international human rights: a ten-year retrospective The impact of LGBTI human rights advances has been incremental and subtle, but one measure can be gleaned from the response of UN human rights institutions at the ... By Raymond A. Smith Español
June 12, 2021 Secrecy, brand vaccines, and non-cooperation in the access to COVID in Latin America If we add the usual policy of transnational pharmaceutical companies to the usual policy of how developed countries operate, we begin to see why regions like Latin ... By Tatiana Andia Rey Español
June 12, 2021 Mobilizing international human rights to challenge coronavirus vaccine apartheid Beyond the looming humanitarian and moral catastrophe of COVID-19, lie opportunities for mobilizing international human rights law to compel states to take action, ... By Jackie Dugard & Jeff Handmaker & Bruce Porter Español
June 12, 2021 Vaccine apartheid: global inequities in Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution An ‘every-country-for-itself’ approach is irrational and even counterproductive, yet that is exactly what has happened. By Jayati Ghosh Español
June 12, 2021 Human rights responses against vaccine apartheid In this OGR Up Close, a series of distinguished authors go beyond denouncing the vaccine apartheid. They advocate solutions that address the current health emergency ... By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
June 9, 2021 The excesses of identity-based activism undermine human rights How an overemphasis on subjectivity and lived experience in activism leads to expanding the scope of restrictions and ultimately threatening universal rights By Nicolas Agostini Español Français
June 7, 2021 Against nihilism: transformative human rights praxis for the future of global health If we recognize that global health has colonial origins, we must also acknowledge that it remains deeply embedded in, and shaped by, interlocking systems of power. By Alicia Ely Yamin & Paul Farmer Español
June 4, 2021 Litigating the future: climate rights before the German Constitutional Court Human rights analysts and practitioners will recognize in the decision of the German Court an important turn in the evolution of rights. By César Rodríguez-Garavito Español
June 2, 2021 British U-turn on torture shows how human rights advocacy can work The UK looked set to undermine the international prohibition against torture, but relentless campaigning and shaming forced a change. By Frank Foley Español
May 31, 2021 Washing off the Trump Stink: reclaiming human rights in the United States Once immediate policies have minimized Trump Stink, what are the implications for the US’ long-term identity? By Kurt Mills & Rodger A. Payne Español
May 28, 2021 What the IMF and neoliberals can learn from human rights Human rights have the power and mandate to challenge the orthodox economic policies that the IMF promotes. By Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Francisco Cantamutto Español
May 27, 2021 Why foresight should be in the DNA of the social change field An OGR and JustLabs Guide on futures thinking By OGR Admin
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