Kenya's Parliament has both the power and the responsibility to close this gap by enacting the law on abortion access ...

Civil institutions that are reliable, accountable, and accessible are crucial to building confidence in government.

Cristina Alejandra Estrella is an Argentine lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and a civil-law notary from the University of Morón. She completed a postgraduate specialization in civil law at ...

When the design of a proceeding adopted by the courts undercuts a child’s credibility before they speak, that obligation is ...

Remarkably, the report only mentions human rights once—a near-total omission even more surprising given Piketty’s extensive writings on social rights and the report’s focus on global justice and broad ...

Nicholas E. Stewart is the executive director of the Justice Education Project, the first national Gen Z-led criminal justice reform organization, where his research focuses on the sociology of ...

Although transitional justice has dedicated greater attention to gender and sexual violence since 1990, more work is still urgently needed.

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 ...

Human rights education and rights-based approaches to learning can help cultivate transformative agency for both teachers and students and contribute to securing human rights for all. Notably, HRE ...

Dr. May Thet Nu Noe is a public health physician and current PhD researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, specializing in mental health. Previously, she served as a team leader for the ...

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 ...

Around the world, local populations continue to demand justice. Where they have been successful in pushing for the adoption of accountability mechanisms, there have been reductions in violence. Over ...