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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Displacement is often measured geographically, but for many in diaspora communities, exile persists psychologically long after borders are crossed. We often understand exile in terms of physical ...

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 ...