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 ...

Although transitional justice has dedicated greater attention to gender and sexual violence since 1990, more work is still urgently needed.

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 ...

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 ...

The Indian state’s failure to address human rights abuses during the ongoing ethnic conflict in the Manipur region constitutes a violation of protections granted to Indigenous peoples in international ...

Simon Kieser (Boarisch-Schwob) is a human rights and environmental lawyer whose work focuses on Indigenous justice, heritage governance, and environmental law. He is an associate of the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a major pitfall in assuming that other countries simply need to “catch up” through an expansion of SOGIE rights frameworks. LGBTQ+ and SOGIE (sexual orientation and gender identity education) ...

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 ...

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 this abhorrent practice. The ...