Examples of how technology can be used as a powerful tool for human rights are ever expanding. Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, and blockchain have the potential to make ...

Children are disproportionately affected by climate harms—they need to be at the center of local efforts to build resilience.

For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we ...

What are the ways in which efforts to achieve SDG targets can strengthen the protection and fulfilment of human rights? What are the risks? How should human rights groups use the SDGs, if at all, and ...

The notion of three generations of human rights has endured for 40 years. But it has no solid historical or analytic basis, and it obscures rather than clarifies the relationship between rights. The ...

Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...

Changing the focus from a human-centric approach to human rights will help the movement advance on environmental agendas with an inter-species recognition. The recent UN General Assembly’s historic ...

Who speaks for nature’s rights? The question needs careful consideration, or we risk in protecting nature to further disenfranchise the already marginalized. Many years ago, in Wild Law, Cormac ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. As national governments retreat from human ...

Structural power imbalances in the UN system have prevented it from halting Israel’s ongoing war crimes against Gazans. Individual states and civil society must step in to prevent further aggressions ...

Without the ingenuity of feminists from the Global South and networks of committed activists on every continent, we would never have heard the phrase: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” When First ...

What the Inter-American Court’s recent advisory opinion tells us about the past, present, and future of climate change policy and litigation Your browser does not ...