Haors, marshy wetlands located mainly in northeastern Bangladesh, are central to the livelihoods, ecology, and culture of ...

Existing labor protections reinforce gender inequality by assigning the primary responsibility for caregiving to mothers.

Dr. Maliha Khan, the CEO of Women Deliver, paints a stark picture of the current situation: “The system that housed our ...

The concept of the “human rights economy” (HRE) developed by nongovernmental organizations including the Center for Economic ...

Chloe Watts is a community worker, writer, and multidisciplinary creative based in Australia. She focuses on gendered violence and social policy, working with organizations that support women and ...

Maia Borchardt is a program coordinator at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where she facilitates programmatic ...

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 ...

Current human rights frameworks fail to address the problems individuals and communities face worldwide, requiring a system less tethered to a Western-dominated liberal international order. This past ...

The UN General Assembly has recognized the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment with near unanimity. The UN General Assembly recognized the human right to a clean, healthy, and ...

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 ...

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 ...