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 ...

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, ...

Russia’s prosecution of Satanism shows how authoritarian regimes abuse anti-extremism legislation to suppress diversity and self-expression. These absurd cases reveal the power of a new legal ...

In South Africa, apartheid-era divisions still shape young people’s mobility and access to the city. In South Africa, the right to the city is indivisible from the right of systemically marginalized ...

Since attaining independence from Great Britain in 1966, Botswana has enjoyed the longest streak of multiparty democracy and unbroken democratic governance on the continent, and commentators celebrate ...

Communications blackouts help human rights violators avoid accountability and hide the full scale of their violence. In Tehran, a mother searching for her daughter opened body bag after body bag in an ...

Around the world, local populations continue to demand justice. Where they have been successful in pushing for the adoption of accountability mechanisms, there have been reductions in violence. Over ...

Empathy, the universal acknowledgment of other people’s humanity, has long served as the central emotional component of rights-based justice. Legal systems and philosophical doctrines credit reason as ...

El 26 de octubre de 2025, el Tribunal Supremo de Pakistán cambió de forma discreta pero significativa la forma en que la ley entiende el daño dentro del matrimonio. En una sentencia redactada por la ...

UK Conservatives hope to enforce a hardline immigration policy while sacrificing human rights protections. For the first time, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a part of the ...

When world leaders gather in Belém for COP30, they will once again hail the Amazon as the lungs of the planet. Much attention will focus on cattle ranching, soy expansion, oil drilling, and ...