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: An Ecosystem’s moral authorship of a work of art
A petition to Ecuador’s copyright office marks the first legal attempt led by More Than Human Life (MOTH) program to recognize the Los Cedros cloud forest as a co-creator of the composition Song of the Cedars.
Highlights
More-Than-Human Rights & César Rodríguez-Garavito awarded Future Observatory Fellowship
Climate & Environment
César Rodríguez-Garavito is one of four pioneering researchers awarded a Future Observatory Fellowship to explore the intersection of design and the natural world. The work will be featured in a major exhibition at the Design Museum, opening June 2025, highlighting cutting-edge installations.
Event
Center Chair gives keynote talk in Brazil Supreme Court’s Seminar on structural litigation
Climate & Environment
As part of the Center’s ongoing academic exchange with Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, César Rodríguez-Garavito gave a keynote talk in the seminar “Structural Litigation: Advances and Challenges” in Brasilia.
Resources
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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