TL;DR: It depends I believe that women’s rights are human rights. I believe that people have the right to health care. I believe that women have unique rights, like the right to decide what will happen with their bodies during pregnancy. I believe that abortion is health care and is…

Images of children are a constant, sometimes numbing, and often striking feature of many human rights appeals. …

Coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine often underscores how important Ukraine is to feeding people across the world. According to Roman Leshchenko, the country’s Minister of Agrarian Policy, “For centuries, Ukraine has been known as ‘the breadbasket of Europe.’ …

Anna Politkovskaya and press freedom in Russia The muzzling of independent Russian media, including the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decades-long campaign against journalists, the free press, and freedom of expression. …

On September 10, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell was in Lima, Peru, with plans to travel to Colombia the next day. As a researcher for Human Rights Watch with a focus on Colombia, I and my colleagues had been working hard to convince his team to include a strong…

TL;DR: it’s more complicated than you think I’m fascinated when hot-button cultural issues wend through areas that seem quite distanced. That includes connections between human rights and archaeology. I grew up loving NatGeo documentaries about Louis Leakey discovering ancient hominid fossils in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, rewriting our understanding of human…

TL;DR: a powerful, timely novel for young adults about extremism Last week, a jury found Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and three other members of the Proud Boys extremist group guilty of seditious conspiracy for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Proud Boys are a far-right, male-only, paramilitary…

TL;DR: May his memory be a blessing We lost a pint-sized, yet towering figure in human rights on April 8, 2023. Benjamin Ferencz was the last living prosecutor to bring Nazi leaders to justice at Nuremberg after World War II. He also single-handedly led the biggest murder trial in human…

TL;DR We need more diverse books! Book World broke out in raucous debate when Roald Dahl’s British publisher announced a planned revision of some of his kids’ books in an effort to make them more acceptable to some adults. Dahl (1916–1990) is the author of dozens of books and short stories, many for children. According to…