A recent judgement provides victims and courts more latitude to address emotional and psychological abuse. On October 26, 2025, Pakistan’s Supreme Court quietly but significantly shifted how the law ...

Vashti Ortego is a transfeminist from the beautiful islands of Visayas, Philippines. She serves as the global to local advocacy officer at IWRAW Asia Pacific, where she works to ensure that the rights ...

La crisis climática no es solo una emergencia ecológica, sino también una profunda crisis de derechos humanos que agrava las desigualdades existentes desde hace tiempo. En septiembre de 2025, el Comit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To protect human rights, global leaders must heed the scientific community’s call to return atmospheric CO2 to below 350 ppm as soon as possible. The 1890s marked a key moment in the history of ...

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 ...

Human rights scholarship and advocacy claim to be grounded in universality, yet both are anything but in their privileging the Western role in building an international human rights system. A paradox ...

The proposed abbreviation is more accurate, more inclusive, and ultimately more universal. The ever-expanding term LGBTQIA+ serves the worthy purpose of including a diverse array of categories and ...