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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 2006 and 2013, the Haitian government granted more than 50 mining permits to three U.S. and Canadian companies to explore land occupied by dozens of communities in the northern region of Haiti ...

AI can either widen inequalities or become a tool for social good. The non-profit world must get closer to new technologies, taking advantage of the benefits while carefully evaluating all the risks.

People with lived experiences of migration must be at the center of efforts to address the growing impact of border technologies. At the Migration and Technology Monitor (MTM), we try to build a ...

The notion of three generations of human rights has endured for 40 years. But it has no solid historical or analytic basis, and it obscures rather than clarifies the relationship between rights. The ...

To restore its position as a global advocate for human rights, the United States must ensure access to abortion within its borders. International human rights frameworks, such as the Convention on the ...

With the proliferation of national government structures that report to human rights bodies, the complementary role of independent rights monitoring institutions remains crucial to ensuring states’ ...

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 ...

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 ...