Within days of Donald Trump’s second election as president of the United States, aides were concocting plans for mass deportations that look in many ways to be the spear-tip of a wider assault on ...

In 2020, the IACtHR held that states may denounce human rights treaties, but only within limits consistent with the protection of fundamental rights. Chirinos Salamanca implicitly extends that logic: ...

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 ...

Simón Gómez Guaimara is a PhD candidate at Complutense University of Madrid and holds a Master’s degree in international law from the London School of Economics. He worked as the coordinator of human ...

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

Una cultura arraigada de control estatal militarista amenaza cualquier acción significativa en materia de derechos humanos en Rusia.

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 ...

Who speaks for nature’s rights? The question needs careful consideration, or we risk in protecting nature to further disenfranchise the already marginalized. Many years ago, in Wild Law, Cormac ...

For Africa to address challenges like climate justice, conflict transformation, and food security, the participation of youth activists will be critical. This rise in youth activism reflects two ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the majority of the world that lacks significant economic and political power, there is an urgent need to increase our capacity to innovate. There is near-consensus among human rights ...