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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human rights movement needs to keep long-term goals in focus, especially in moments of crisis. After decades of tremendous progress, human rights defenders are now struggling against rising ...

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 ...

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

Maung Solaiman Shah is a Rohingya human rights activist, writer, and founder of Youth Led Initiative (YLI), currently based in Bangladesh. His work focuses on statelessness, refugee rights, and ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights must recognize democracy as an autonomous right before democratic erosion becomes irreparable. In 2024, Guatemala asked the Inter-American Court of Human ...

Humanitarian aid is essential following systemic violence and displacement, but it cannot build durable solutions on its own. Conditions for the Rohingya declined dramatically in 2017. That year, ...

Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest cocoa manufacturer, processes roughly a quarter of the globe’s total supply each year. The company joined the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and other ...