In Vietnam, more than 160 political prisoners are currently locked up simply for exercising their basic rights. Rights bloggers and activists face police harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and interrogation on a daily basis. Activists face long stints of pre-trial detention, without access to lawyers or family in a one-party police state that tolerates no dissent.

The rights of LGBT people are on the chopping block across the world, with new countries criminalizing same-sex practices and banning representation of queer relationships in 2025. However, the landscape for LGBT rights has also shifted tremendously towards progress over the past decades. What gives? This week, we explore

Since April 2023, more than a half-million people have been displaced in Sudan due to fighting between two armed forces who were once aligned. The story of how the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces turned on each other, with devastating consequences for Sudan’s civilians, can be traced back to

Activists held the first mass protest at a COP conference since 2021, demanding greater environmental protection and the safeguarding of human rights for people impacted by climate change and resource extraction.

Right now at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, governments are negotiating what it would mean to have a just transition. To make it work, we call on governments at Cop 30 to recognize rights such as a clean environment, social security, education, and health care.  Governments should address how the extraction and processing of minerals needed for the energy transition will impact Indigenous peoples, communities and workers. It's vital that they also think about the need for a UN tax treaty, so that we can raise the revenue that we need for good education, good health care, for schools and hospitals. And finally, governments should create a tangible process called a Belém Action Mechanism to make sure these promises happen.

In the early aughts, a campaign to “Save Sudan” became the bipartisan issue of the time. Celebrities and politicians alike implored a global audience to pay attention to and advocate against Suan’s human rights crisis. As interventions waned, so did the attention of many global onlookers. But, since the Sudan Armed Forces