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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Temperature targets set by Global North actors would reinforce the legacy of colonial harms and vulnerability in an era of climate emergency. Is contemporary global decision-making neocolonial? That ...

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 ...