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 ...

Legal recognition of the link between human wellbeing and the welfare of the natural world is a fairly recent development, and one that has spread rapidly. In the last few decades, a substantial ...

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 ...

Despite accounts of backlash against the international human rights system, research on state compliance shows cause for optimism. International human rights law has always vacillated between ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. A few years ago, an official from an international organization asked me, “Beyond the good vibes of human rights ...

For the first time in its history, the Court explicitly stipulates clear business and human rights standards to be met by states and companies. In August 2021, in a landmark ruling in Miskito Divers v ...

Impunity in Mexico is not accidental, random, or involuntary. Instead, impunity results from a chain of actions taken with the express purpose of undermining investigations. We contend that impunity ...

With the proliferation of national government structures that report to human rights bodies, the complementary role of independent rights monitoring institutions remains crucial to ensuring states’ ...

Any internet shutdown constitutes a human rights violation. But in many instances, governments use internet shutdowns to cover up grave violations of individuals’ human rights, including illegitimate ...

Victims of human rights abuses and their advocates are using innovative legal methods to hold economic actors accountable for their role in rights violations. The transitional justice (TJ) field has ...

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 ...

Border technologies heighten the historical violence of colonialism and imperialism while failing to address the root causes of forced migration. Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal proudly hold up their ...