Illicit economies must be recognized as drivers of deforestation and global climate risk. Climate and biodiversity agreements should align with the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime ...

Belém puede ser recordada como un punto de inflexión, cuando el mundo dejó de tratar a la Amazonia como una víctima y comenzó a desmantelar las economías criminales que impulsaban su colapso. La ...

Sofía Jarrín Hidalgo, an Ecuadorian anthropologist and international advocacy advisor for the Western Amazon at Amazon Watch, has over 16 years of experience in human rights and environmental justice.

Raphael Hoetmer, a Dutch researcher, educator, and activist, has lived in Latin America for over two decades. Currently, he is the director of the Western Amazon Program at Amazon Watch, an associate ...

During recent fieldwork in Puerto Rico, students in the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU Law met with ...

Examples of how technology can be used as a powerful tool for human rights are ever expanding. Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, and blockchain have the potential to make ...

Los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos amenazan cada vez más los arrecifes de coral y las comunidades humanas que estos ...

Without the ingenuity of feminists from the Global South and networks of committed activists on every continent, we would never have heard the phrase: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” When First ...

From the United Nations to the World Health Organization these institutions provide an important foundation, legitimacy, and universality to the human rights movement. But many of these institutions ...

Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...

The mental health and well-being of advocates has often been neglected by human rights organizations, funders, and advocates themselves. Recently, however, activists and mental health professionals ...

Israel’s assault on Gaza is creating widespread environmental destruction, compounding the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the displacement of Palestinians. Despite the fact that it is not yet ...