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 ...

Nicholas E. Stewart is the executive director of the Justice Education Project, the first national Gen Z-led criminal justice reform organization, where his research focuses on the sociology of ...

With authoritarianism, illiberalism, and toxic polarization on the rise, the imperative for human rights advocates to engage new allies is stronger than ever. In 2022, a consortium of organizers, ...

In 2024, Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET), a project I have co-directed for five years, released a global database of human rights accountability mechanisms dating from 1970 to 2020. The ...

A crucial blind spot for those in the human rights field continues to cost lives unabated. Over decades, human rights discourse has elaborated every way religion wounds people, an assessment that ...

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 ...

Although transitional justice has dedicated greater attention to gender and sexual violence since 1990, more work is still urgently needed. Meanwhile, by documenting criminal accountability for human ...

Ante el auge del autoritarismo, el antiliberalismo y la polarización tóxica, la necesidad de que los defensores de los derechos humanos consigan nuevos aliados es más acuciante que nunca. En 2022, un ...