Reports, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on human rights, including content about the social, economic, civil and political rights of people within countries and internationally, human rights law and the exercising of human rights law.
Since October 7, 2023, critics of Israel in Europe and the United States have faced serious repression. In the United States, college…
I am from Dakhla, on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara. For thirteen years, I have been unable to return safely because…
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the āArabā side of a…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
Palestinians in the West Bank are at their weakest point in history, and today theyāre staring down Israelās accelerating campaign to ethnically…
Zionism has a chequered history: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, wars without end, apartheid, land theft and now, genocide. Less well known…
Nearly 10 months into a āceasefireā in theĀ GazaĀ Strip, as Israel on TuesdayĀ killedĀ at least one Palestinian man with an airstrike on the Nuseirat…
In 1950, during an informal meeting with colleagues at Los Alamos, the famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi asked the following question: Where…
The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th…
As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate viral hepatitis,…
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