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 ...

The climate crisis is not only an ecological emergency; it is also a profound human rights crisis that deepens long-standing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In both Latin America and in North America mutual aid movements swelled in response to the collective trauma and collective learning of the pandemic. Arundhati Roy described the pandemic as a portal.