Human rights in the U.S. and around the world in 2023
An expert explains some big developments in human rights this year.
The U.S. hasn’t signed the world’s foremost women’s rights treaty. Activists have gotten local versions passed instead.
These aren’t just symbolic laws. They affect women’s lives.
A Trump moratorium on international treaties could roll back human rights — here at home
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How laws around the world do and do not protect women from violence
In 1999, Jessica Lenahan-Gonzales’s estranged husband took her three girls
Do Human Rights Treaties Work?
One of the weirder findings of the recent political science
The Intellectual Poverty of the Sovereigntist Argument Against the Disabilities Convention
There is a pretty strong consensus that the UN Convention on
What Good is a UN Human Rights Treaty?
Dan Drezner argues that yesterday's Senate vote to reject the UN
Theocratic Aspirations Meet International Law
The Netherlands may well be the ultimate liberal country where