Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of huma

Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at pr

Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.