This guide seeks to equip human rights defenders and anti-corruption advocates with practical tools to promote accountability ...

14 April 2023 - The United Nations will welcome hundreds of Indigenous Peoples from around the world for the 22nd session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) to be held in New York ...

A human rights-based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting ...

Advances in genomic technologies and declining sequencing costs have driven a surge in human genome projects, projected to generate 2–40 exabytes of data within the next decade 1. Aggregating and ...

With the United Nations Human Rights Office, Lorna McGregor and Petra Molnar launched a study advocating for a human-rights based approach to digital border technologies. “In an age in which digital ...

We propose a rights-based, recovery-oriented approach for mental health reform—one that both protects civil liberties and invests in the structural supports necessary for recovery. On September 10, ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of ...