Conservative governments and organizations are using the language of human rights as a smokescreen for regressive ideology.

Tamanika Ferguson is a visiting research scholar in women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. Her research examines Black feminisms, gendered punishment, carceral governance, and the politics ...

Liz Mount is an assistant professor of practice at Texas Tech University. Her research examines how feminist and LGBTQ+ civil society organizations in India and at the UN Commission on the Status of ...

Natascia Boeri is an associate professor of sociology at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. Her research focuses on motherhood, substance use, institutional inequality, and social ...

Nicolette Naylor is a co-convenor of ARCS Roundtable, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nicolette is a prominent Pan-African feminist lawyer and philanthropy executive who advocates for a shift ...

Social justice organizations need alternative, independent, and flexible sources of funding to build sustainable futures for the human rights field.

Convincing the public that collective action is ineffective is one of authoritarianism's pernicious threats. Fear often explains what appears to be political apathy in repressive societies. Citizens ...

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 ...

The concept of caste provides valuable insights into discrimination against Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Most historical, religious, anthropological, sociological, and political research on caste has ...

Dr. Muhammad Asif Khan is a Humboldt Fellow in the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN). He is also an associate professor at NUST Law School, ...

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 ...

What the Inter-American Court’s recent advisory opinion tells us about the past, present, and future of climate change policy and litigation Your browser does not ...