Most people in the region are living in countries with closed or repressed civic space where their freedoms to speak up, organize, or mobilize are under attack on a daily basis. The CIVICUS Monitor ...

Corporate values aren’t optional, and they’re more controversial and contested than ever. Legal compliance no longer offers a solid foundation for efforts to run an ethical business. On the other hand ...

The Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has ...

Last year, at the abandoned Idomeni train station in Greece, I spoke with Kurdish sisters from Syria. They were living in a makeshift refugee camp on the nearby border with Macedonia. Just a week ...

“I want my dad to let me be me and grow,” she wrote in a letter to a Michigan probate court. But soon after, Jim relocated his family to California, where he later worked as an operator of medical ...

How can an institution tasked with monitoring state power be required to obtain approval from the very executive branch it is ...

When a gold mine in rural Liberia spewed three million gallons of cyanide-laced wastewater into soil and groundwater in 2016, affected Indigenous communities’ calls for accountability went largely ...

The United Nations addressed the participation of biological men competing in women's sports as a human rights issue during a meeting of the General Assembly on October 8. Reem Alsalem, special ...

On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...