The descendants of the victims of Namibia’s genocide have vowed to continue their quest for direct reparation, after disowning the settlement struck between their government and Germany.

Marginally represented in the negotiations and side-lined during the transitional period that followed the revolution of December 2018, Sudanese women are ramping up their demands for equal rights in a bold move that challenges the patriarchal [...]

Elderly dependants have been hard hit by recent blows to the Lebanese economy. They feel abandoned by the state and are having to turn to charity to survive. Even before the recent crises, the country’s public health and social services were hugely lacking and care for the elderly was almost [...]

With the Chilean judiciary unwilling to take action in response to human rights violations that occurred during the popular uprising of 2019, human rights defenders are taking steps to bring those responsible before the International Criminal Court [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the many obstacles in accessing a safe abortion in Poland, Romania, and to a lesser extent, Hungary, either because of prohibitive laws and/or because of conservative political and religious [...]

At the intersection of these twin crises of public health and rule of law stand four main concerns: constraints on government powers, fundamental rights and discrimination, corruption, and access to justice.