Climate cases turn on not only law and science but also judicial temperament: how judges perceive harm, risk, and responsibility over time.

Few will dispute that the work of a human rights defender should take into account the cultural and social realities of a particular region. Yet, human rights campaigns often fail ...

Children are disproportionately affected by climate harms—they need to be at the center of local efforts to build resilience.

Los niños se ven afectados de manera desproporcionada por los daños climáticos, por lo que deben ser el centro de los esfuerzos locales para desarrollar la resiliencia.

The UK government has proposed a series of measures that would weaken legal protections for the right to privacy. Rights groups and industry experts must continue to push back. End-to-end encryption ...

Changing the focus from a human-centric approach to human rights will help the movement advance on environmental agendas with an inter-species recognition. The recent UN General Assembly’s historic ...

For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we ...

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 ...

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 ...

In both Latin America and in North America mutual aid movements swelled in response to the collective trauma and collective learning of the pandemic. Arundhati Roy described the pandemic as a portal.

Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...

Any internet shutdown constitutes a human rights violation. But in many instances, governments use internet shutdowns to cover up grave violations of individuals’ human rights, including illegitimate ...