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Are Rights of Nature Working? The Impact of the Los Cedros Ruling in Ecuador
November 1, 2024

Are Rights of Nature Working? The Impact of the Los Cedros Ruling in Ecuador

The pioneering ruling in Ecuador has laid the groundwork for protecting nonhumans as legal persons. To ensure that more-than-human rights are enforced, the rights ...

By Melina De Bona & César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Anti-green authoritarianism: Democratic backsliding on a heating planet
September 27, 2023

Anti-green authoritarianism: Democratic backsliding on a heating planet

To develop strategies to protect human rights, advocates must understand and target the relationship between authoritarianism and anti-environmental policies.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Arpitha Kodiveri
Español
More than human rights: What can we learn from trees, animals, and fungi?
October 28, 2022

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.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
The (science) fiction of human rights
April 8, 2022

The (science) fiction of human rights

How a particular kind of science fiction resonates with a wide audience and can enrich human rights thinking and practice

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
The eight-year decade that will determine the fate of the planet and human rights
December 9, 2021

The eight-year decade that will determine the fate of the planet and human rights

If slowing climate change is a game, how is it going and what's left to accomplish?

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
The doughnut approach: how to climatize human rights
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
Human rights responses against vaccine apartheid
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
Litigating the future: climate rights before the German Constitutional Court
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
Five existential challenges to human rights
March 12, 2021

Five existential challenges to human rights

A look at the key geopolitical, ecological, technological and socio-economic challenges to human rights.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
From Barbuda to the World:  Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency
December 11, 2020

From Barbuda to the World: Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency

Barbuda is a microcosm of larger trends and issues from climate-induced displacement and disaster capitalism, to the greenwashing of policies that undermine climate ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Elizabeth Donger
Español
Climate litigation and human rights: averting the next global crisis
June 26, 2020

Climate litigation and human rights: averting the next global crisis

OGR's newest series explores a rising wave of lawsuits that is laying bare the profound impacts that a warming planet has on basic human rights and future generations.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Post-pandemic futures, hope, and human rights
May 16, 2020

Post-pandemic futures, hope, and human rights

If human rights actors are to help shape the post-pandemic world, they need to start imagining it now.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español  Français  العربية
Anti-capitalist human rights for the 21st Century
October 24, 2019

Anti-capitalist human rights for the 21st Century

In addition to asking whether or not human rights reinforce the status quo, we should address the following question: can human rights contribute to imagining non-capitalist ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
العربية  Español
Reimagining human rights as a frame of justice
September 12, 2018

Reimagining human rights as a frame of justice

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

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Populism and human rights: a new playbook
June 28, 2018

Populism and human rights: a new playbook

With populist leaders stoking nationalism and violating basic rights, traditional advocacy strategies are losing their effectiveness. The human rights movement ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito & Krizna Gomez
Español  العربية
Scientists and activists collaborate to bring hard data into advocacy
November 21, 2017

Scientists and activists collaborate to bring hard data into advocacy

A new collaboration in Colombia is bringing together activists, scientists, physicians and other experts to collect hard evidence on the human rights impacts of ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Trump’s victory could push the human rights movement to transform
December 10, 2016

Trump’s victory could push the human rights movement to transform

Donald Trump’s victory is a threat to human rights, but could it also push the movement to transform and strategize with greater urgency?

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
The ‘soft vengeance’ of peace in Colombia
November 2, 2015

The ‘soft vengeance’ of peace in Colombia

An agreement recently concluded between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels promises both peace and justice, and deserves support by human rights advocates.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Muzzling humor in the Ecuadorean Revolution
March 30, 2015

Muzzling humor in the Ecuadorean Revolution

In Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government muzzles critique and attacks satirists in an increasingly anti-democratic environment.

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
Multiple boomerangs: new models of global human rights advocacy
January 21, 2015

Multiple boomerangs: new models of global human rights advocacy

The global human rights field is being transformed, and activists are inventing new, less hierarchical models of collaboration, including global virtual networks ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
July 30, 2013

Against reductionist views of human rights

César Rodríguez-Garavito responds to Stephen Hopgood and Aryeh Neier, criticising both sides of the debate for an all too simplistic view of the actors, the content ...

By César Rodríguez-Garavito
Español
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