Digital platforms have a responsibility to protect human rights defenders, even when threats are not explicit. Independent ...

Las plataformas digitales tienen la responsabilidad de proteger a los defensores de los derechos humanos, incluso cuando las ...

Belém puede ser recordada como un punto de inflexión, cuando el mundo dejó de tratar a la Amazonia como una víctima y comenzó ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People with lived experiences of migration must be at the center of efforts to address the growing impact of border technologies. At the Migration and Technology Monitor (MTM), we try to build a ...

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 ...

If compelling human rights narratives are not grounded in sustainable, replicable and scalable projects, it will be hard to outweigh the political and economic ... The existing rejection and distrust ...

Agneris Sampieri is Access Now’s Latin America policy analyst.