#FreeBritney
Clarifying (or deciding) who gets to decide for people with disabilities
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Grandmas Save the World
How the landmark KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland case changed climate litigation
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The Case for Global Medicine
How the WHO became humanity's most ambitious health project
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Let the Games Begin!
Recognizing human dignity through sport
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AI-generated image picturing lots of money, weapons, and a golden figure of Lady Justice. Intentionally meant to be tacky and over-the-top.

How to Become a Billionaire with Human Rights
Guaranteed Rights = 💰 Guaranteed Money 💰
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*Special post for [what was] Cesar Chavez Day*

How do we honor a movement when its leader caused harm to the people it was meant to protect?

What does it mean to recognize the great accomplishments of that man side by side with his gross crimes?
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A Stepping Stone to the Rights of Nature La Oroya v. Peru: protecting inhabitants and nature is one and the same

Announcing our first guest author! Thank you Patricio Trincado Vera for sharing your expertise and writing today's post.

A Stepping Stone to the Rights of Nature
La Oroya v. Peru: protecting inhabitants and nature is one and the same
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The Three Duties Behind Every Right A simple framework for accountability

The Three Duties Behind Every Right
A simple framework for accountability
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"If we want human rights to mean dignity in practice, we have to do the behind-the-scenes work too."
This week we've covered:
▪️Human dignity
▪️Bayard Rustin
▪️My Lai massacre
▪️End of impunity ("amnesty") laws in Latin America
▪️the right to counsel

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The Man Behind the March
Bayard Rustin and his work for two civil rights movements
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When War Became Massacre From dehumanization to impunity in Vietnam

When War Became Massacre
From dehumanization to impunity in Vietnam
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No Amnesty for Atrocity
Dismantling the legal shield protecting human rights abusers
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Finding Dignity in Rights
The source and purpose of human rights

It's women's week! This week we've covered:
▪️Int'l Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
▪️Dred Scott and citizenship's connection with rights
▪️gender equality
▪️Nadia Murad
▪️ICCPR
▪️A special post on female advocates

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Civil Rights are Human Rights
The document that made civil rights a global commitment
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From Powerless Victim to Global Voice for Survivors
Transforming lived trauma into a global human rights movement
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Women’s Day, Women’s Week, Women’s Month
Why one day isn’t enough to achieve justice
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Happy International Women’s Day!

"When zooming out to the situation worldwide, women only have 64% of the legal rights men have."

Today we celebrate the incredible women striving for rights that we've highlighted in Everyday Human Rights this year.
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Weapons Bring Peace Like Gasoline Puts Out Fires Marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Weapons Bring Peace Like Gasoline Puts Out Fires
Marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
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"Disasters test whether rights are real when they're most needed."

See this week's posts on nature and human rights, including natural hazards and medicinal plants.

This week's highlighted advocates:
* Sergei Kovalev (Russia)
* Meena Keshwar Kamal (Afghanistan)

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Leaving a Legacy
The woman who protected her people from a dangerous investment
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Wildlife in a Wild World
Finding the human in World Wildlife Day
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Organize. Enter. Stand Firm.
From exile to office and back to opposition
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February is a Wrap! We explored how everyday life—from beans to vacations—connects to human rights through our choices and allocation of resources.

Join us for our continued spotlighting of human rights activists and key concepts. See you next month!

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"To remember is to resist."
The ideas we explored last week include:

- Japanese-Americans internment
- social justice
- speaking one's mother tongue
- judicial review
- the People Power Revolution

Bonus: tomorrow's post is our first reader-suggested topic!
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Time for our weekly wrap-up! It's been a week of celebrating scientific achievements, protecting vulnerable groups, and eating beans 🫘!
We loved hearing from you about how much you enjoyed us "spilling the beans" about human rights. Let us know what to cover next!
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Protecting the Youngest Victims of War In times of war and conflict, many people live in constant fear and experience horrendous violations of their freedoms and rights.

Protecting the Youngest Victims of War

Who Gets to Be “a People”? Most human rights restrict what governments may do to individuals.

Who Gets to Be “a People”?

Touching Letters: Accessible Information for All Have you ever wondered how blind and partially sighted people can read the story books you loved as a kid or the list of allergens on the back of a package of cereals?

Touching Letters: Accessible Information for All

The Day Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Grew Legal Teeth Today is the 50th anniversary of the coming into force of one of the two foundational human rights treaties.

The Day Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Grew Legal Teeth