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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.
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.
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Highlights
MOTH Project among Top 10 in UN Live’s 2024 Culture for Impact List.
The More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) project has been named one of the top 10 initiatives in this year’s UN Live Culture for Impact List.
Culture for Impact is an annual recognition by the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live to celebrate cultural initiatives that unleash the power of popular culture to address major societal challenges and inspire positive change.
The MOTH project is an interdisciplinary endeavor that reimagines the rights and well-being of humans, non-humans, and the interconnected web of life. A centerpiece of MOTH’s work, “Song of the Cedars,” celebrates the creative essence of forests by channeling the presence of Los Cedros in the Ecuadorian Andes through music—bringing its spirit and sounds into the hearts of listeners worldwide.
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César Rodríguez-Garavito awarded Future Observatory Fellowship
Climate & Environment
César Rodríguez-Garavito is one of four pioneering researchers awarded a Future Observatory Fellowship for his work on More-Than-Human-Rights 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.
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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.
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Bay Kou Bliye, Poke Mak Sonje: Climate Injustice in Haiti and the Case for Reparations
Global Justice Clinic
A new report by the Global Justice Clinic and the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, in collaboration with Haitian social movement organizations, illuminates the crisis of climate injustice in Haiti.
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