Human Rights

At a time when the cost of a typical phone call is approaching zero, a few companies are charging millions of consumers — the families of people in prison —…

The gap in healthcare coverage following incarceration leads to high rates of death just after release: During just the first two weeks after release from prison, people leaving custody face…

Blocking Ukrainian ports and stopping food exports from Ukraine became one of the key global challenges in the context of Russian aggression against Ukraine. On July 22, 2022, an agreement was signed…

The year 2022 brought increased awareness and concern to the mental health crisis among children and adolescents in the United States. While this year’s urgency is directly linked to the…

Protecting forests by investing in Indigenous peoples and local communities, or IPLCs, is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change and halt the global loss of…

In recent years, many prison systems have either tried or fully implemented a policy that interferes with incarcerated people’s mail in a way we haven’t seen in our many years fighting to…

Black patients do not have the same level of access to new, safer heart surgery procedures as white patients, a new study suggests. Traditional heart surgery, which involves fully opening…

College biology textbooks have done a poor job of incorporating material related to climate change, research finds. For example, the study found that most textbooks published in the 2010s included…

At a time when the public desperately needs accurate, comprehensive data about how the police interface with people in the United States, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a new…

Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars or flipping off the ayatollah’s picture have become signature demonstrations of dissent in the past few months of…

Kyiv-based gender expert Olena Zaitseva is working with the Ukrainian Governance Project and activists to prevent and respond to gender-based violence against Ukrainian women, focusing on fighting sexual exploitation, which…

In 2022 the blows to global cooperation came hard and fast. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not only threatened the lives of millions of Ukrainians and violated the UN Charter, but…