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.
Resources
Teaching Human Rights Today
Open Global Rights
A new online open-access human rights textbook is an opportunity to model true accessibility and to incorporate updated approaches in this complex field, writes Philip Alston.
Resources
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.
Press Highlights
AI Could Help Us Talk to Animals—But Should It?
Atmos
César Rodríguez-Garavito explains that the criteria used to distinguish animals from humans in legal terms have to do with sentience, intelligence, consciousness—all of which have a tendency to “slip through your fingers, because they’re very fuzzy.”
Event
Kawsak Sacha Initiative and the Sciences
Climate and Environment
Climate Week NYC panel about the Kawsak Sacha Initiative and the exchanges across sciences to protect the Living Forest. Speakers include representatives from the Kawsak Sacha Initiative, the Kichwa Indigenous Peoples of Sarayaku, SPUN, Local Contexts and TERRA, NYU Law.
Event
Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing Conference
Climate and Environment
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from diverse fields and disciplinary backgrounds, including the social sciences, law, natural sciences, philosophy and the arts, to explore the concept of more-than-human rights from various angles.
Event
Future of Human Rights and Governance FORGE 2025
FORGE
With a program dedicated to uncovering new approaches and solutions that reimagine rights and governance worldwide, FORGE 2025 will amplify the cross-thematic conversation by inviting a small group of practitioners to be in conversation and discussion within the same room.
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