Examples of how technology can be used as a powerful tool for human rights are ever expanding. Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, and blockchain have the potential to make ...

The ever-expanding term LGBTQIA+ serves the worthy purpose of including a diverse array of categories and identities relating to sexuality and gender. But the term’s shifting, amorphous, and ...

What are the ways in which efforts to achieve SDG targets can strengthen the protection and fulfilment of human rights? What are the risks? How should human rights groups use the SDGs, if at all, and ...

Human rights work depends on the voluntary efforts and goodwill of activists, concerned citizens, and government personnel. Big transformative ideas, however, also need an organizational ...

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 ...

When First Lady Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Beijing Women’s Conference of 1995, the world listened. She spoke with passion and purpose: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this ...

Recent legislation in India has introduced new legal and bureaucratic hurdles for transgender people, particularly those facing additional discrimination based on their minority religious and ethnic ...

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 ...

Arundhati Roy described the pandemic as a portal. Throughout the world, these openings inspired communities to unite, rise up, and engage in participatory action—to demand collective liberation. To ...

Extreme inequality is one of the defining issues of our time, with the gap between rich and poor widening across the globe. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave equal recognition to ...

Preventing and ending conflict, and rebuilding in its aftermath is a complex, context-specific process. During and after violent conflicts, what strategies and tactics are most effective in creating ...

When protesters took to the streets of Kazakhstan, the Central-Asian country’s government did not shy away from turning off the internet, throwing the nation into an information vacuum. This extensive ...