Civil institutions that are reliable, accountable, and accessible are crucial to building confidence in government.

Cristina Alejandra Estrella is an Argentine lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and a civil-law notary from the University of Morón. She completed a postgraduate specialization in civil law at ...

Nicholas E. Stewart is the executive director of the Justice Education Project, the first national Gen Z-led criminal justice reform organization, where his research focuses on the sociology of ...

In protracted conflicts, the distinction between “victim” and “perpetrator” is not always clear-cut. The victim-perpetrator distinction has both symbolic and material implications. In many ...

In 2024, Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET), a project I have co-directed for five years, released a global database of human rights accountability mechanisms dating from 1970 to 2020. The ...

Although transitional justice has dedicated greater attention to gender and sexual violence since 1990, more work is still urgently needed. Meanwhile, by documenting criminal accountability for human ...

With authoritarianism, illiberalism, and toxic polarization on the rise, the imperative for human rights advocates to engage new allies is stronger than ever. In 2022, a consortium of organizers, ...

Ante el auge del autoritarismo, el antiliberalismo y la polarización tóxica, la necesidad de que los defensores de los derechos humanos consigan nuevos aliados es más acuciante que nunca. En 2022, un ...

A crucial blind spot for those in the human rights field continues to cost lives unabated. Over decades, human rights discourse has elaborated every way religion wounds people, an assessment that ...