For many in the human rights field, this moment has prompted difficult questions. If conditions are deteriorating in so many ...

Rights language can record progress. But it can also sanitize the exclusion that made progress necessary in the first place.

On December 16, 1966, these two legally binding treaties joined the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR) to ...

Lesley Carson has spent her career in philanthropy, advocacy, and public policy strengthening human rights. Most recently she directed the International Human Rights Program at Wellspring ...

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 ...

The cancellation of RightsCon 2026 demonstrates the growth of transnational repression and the fragility of the contemporary human rights ecosystem.

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 ...

Temperature targets set by Global North actors would reinforce the legacy of colonial harms and vulnerability in an era of climate emergency. Is contemporary global decision-making neocolonial? That ...

To protect human rights, global leaders must heed the scientific community’s call to return atmospheric CO2 to below 350 ppm as soon as possible. The 1890s marked a key moment in the history of ...

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 ...