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The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice is a leading action-research hub that contributes to the global human rights project through scholarship, education, field building, advocacy, and legal practice. Across a wide range of issue areas and projects, we collaborate closely with partners from diverse geographies and disciplines on the new ideas, practices, and strategies that are needed to address existential challenges to human rights and global justice.

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We nurture ideas, actions, and connections that promote rights-based solutions to ecological emergencies, technological disruptions, deepening inequalities, threats to democracy and peace, and other urgent challenges to global governance and justice. We pursue initiatives that expand and catalyze the collective capacity of the human rights field. We deepen collaborations among communities of thought and practice from around the world, train future human rights thinkers and doers, and disseminate promising approaches to global justice research and advocacy

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Can judges help save the planet? Landmark court decisions on the right to a healthy environment

Open Global Rights

A new report and database highlight 20 landmark court decisions on the right to a healthy environment, drawing upon cases from all parts of the world.

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DMZ demilitarized zone North Korea and South Korea - Ribbon memorial on barbed wire fence at border between two countries.

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Human Rights, Prevention and Peace

Open Global Rights

Amid worldwide political crises, human rights not only provide redress for rights violations but can also prevent violence and foster social integration, writes Pablo de Greiff. 

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SAN JUAN, PR - MARCH 4, 2018: Painted USA flag on uprooted tree from Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Blind spots in climate funding: Island colonies go overlooked

Open Global Rights

While the historic UN Loss and Damage Fund aims to support countries most vulnerable to climate change, it is expected to exclude the several million people living under colonial rule. This oversight leaves many island territories without the crucial aid they deserve.

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