When the design of a proceeding adopted by the courts undercuts a child’s credibility before they speak, that obligation is ...

Remarkably, the report only mentions human rights once—a near-total omission even more surprising given Piketty’s extensive writings on social rights and the report’s focus on global justice and broad ...

In protracted conflicts, the distinction between “victim” and “perpetrator” is not always clear-cut. The victim-perpetrator distinction has both symbolic and material implications. In many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in its history, the Court explicitly stipulates clear business and human rights standards to be met by states and companies. In August 2021, in a landmark ruling in Miskito Divers v ...

Any internet shutdown constitutes a human rights violation. But in many instances, governments use internet shutdowns to cover up grave violations of individuals’ human rights, including illegitimate ...

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. We contend that impunity ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. A few years ago, an official from an international organization asked me, “Beyond the good vibes of human rights ...

Despite accounts of backlash against the international human rights system, research on state compliance shows cause for optimism. International human rights law has always vacillated between ...

Human rights scholarship and advocacy claim to be grounded in universality, yet both are anything but in their privileging the Western role in building an international human rights system. A paradox ...