More than three decades after the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, fulfilment of child rights within health systems worldwide remains uneven and poorly operationalised. Many ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye. HRW ...

Spurred by increasing public recognition of the dangers posed by police responses to mental health and substance use crises—particularly for people of color and individuals with ...

This piece was produced as part of Global Voices’ Special Coverage, Global resistance beyond COP30, with support from Global Voices’ partner AWID. In the absence of adequate laws and government ...

Twenty-three human rights organizations and individuals, including Amnesty International, raised concerns about sex-based violence on Thursday. The report, titled “Forms of Sex-Based Violence Against ...