promoting innovative ideas and practices.
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.
reimagining human rights for the twenty-first century.
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.
staying current.
Highlights
Song of the Cedars: Ecosystem’s moral authorship of a work of art
Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is the first legal attempt led by the More Than Human Life (MOTH) to recognize the Los Cedros cloud forest as the co-creator of the composition Song of the Cedars.
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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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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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