Human Rights

Recent victories in the courts show how a human rights framework can be an instrument to fight suffering and injustice.

Abusive regimes are responsible for their own behaviour. But other states are also responsible if they stand by and fail to speak out.

From attacking social partners to women’s rights, Covid-19 has been a catalyst for Law and Justice’s autocratic tendencies.

Reimagining resilience and prosperity starts with restoring the dignity of all and a new social contract.

An interview with political philosopher Susan Nieman on how Enlightenment values should provide a compass for political action on the Left in times of climate warming.

While political measures to protect the climate are slow, citizens take their governments or polluting companies to court to hold them accountable.

Human rights and neoliberalism both rose to prominence in the last decades of the 20th century, but what is the relationship between the two?

The rise of borders and securitisation is putting core European values at stake. Caterina Guidi examines how the question of migration is riving Europe to its core.

Today, the UDHR remains an important reference point and source of inspiration for activists across the globe.

Annabelle Dawson
gathers 10 voices looking
forward to a Europe in
2049 where the gendered
structures of power and
violence have crumbled
in the face of feminism,
awareness and equality.