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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In Africa, pro bono legal work struggles to fill a crucial gap between limited legal aid systems and demand for representation. Access to legal representation is essential to the realization of human ...

Conservative governments and organizations are using the language of human rights as a smokescreen for regressive ideology. This year’s annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), ...

Tamanika Ferguson is a visiting research scholar in women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. Her research examines Black feminisms, gendered punishment, carceral governance, and the politics ...

Liz Mount is an assistant professor of practice at Texas Tech University. Her research examines how feminist and LGBTQ+ civil society organizations in India and at the UN Commission on the Status of ...