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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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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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Racial justice, climate justice, and reparations: Haiti as an exemplary case

Climate & Environment

Movements for climate justice and movements for reparations for colonial harms can reinforce each other. Haiti’s climate vulnerability speaks to these connections. Written by Sienna Merope-Synge for Open Global Rights.

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Pablo de Greiff UNSC 2025

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Pablo de Greiff briefs UN Security Council on Ukraine

Prevention & Conflict

Pablo de Greiff, Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, addressed the United Nations Security Council during an Arria Formula meeting. 

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