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Transitional Justice Evaluation Team launches its website

May 31, 2024

The TJET Team is delighted to announce the launch of the new TJET website. This site features: the TJET database of transitional justice mechanisms for the period 1970-2020, which can be filtered online and downloaded in its entirety; transitional justice...

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How Feminist Foreign Policies Work to Enhance Gender Justice

February 18, 2024

Read the article published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs here. By Kathryn Sikkink and Helen Clapp February 18, 2024 This article examines whether the Global North uses feminist foreign policies (FFPs) to impose their values on the...

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The Global Reach of Local Activism: Kathryn Sikkink gives keynote address at human rights archive opening at the University of Minnesota

February 12, 2024

Kathryn Sikkink gave the keynote address at the opening of an exhibit at the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Andersen Library called "The Global Reach of Local Activism: Minnesota’s Human Rights Stories." Read the article here: Josh Rash, " The global...

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Kathryn Sikkink Receives Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

June 06, 2023

Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, received an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on June 6, 2023 to honor her outstanding research on...

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Kathryn Sikkink elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

March 12, 2021

Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political Science (AAPSS) in 2021. Read more here

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Fireside Chat with Ms. Kate Gilmore and Prof. Kathryn Sikkink: Human Rights Governance in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

January 14, 2021

This exchange is part of the ILJ Forum series “ International Cooperation and Global Governance in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond.” Please find the link to the chat here .

The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities

September 25, 2020

In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate...

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Kathryn Sikkink on Human Rights, Electoral Reforms, and Uruguay’s Successful Response to COVID-19

July 22, 2020

July 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, on the future of human rights, electoral reforms, and Uruguay’s successful response to COVID-19. | Click here for...

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Op-Ed: College students don’t turn out to vote. Here’s how to change that

April 20, 2020

Kathryn Sikkink speaks to the importance of encouraging more student participation in elections, specicifically in regards to voting. Read the full article here.

La pandemia necesita una respuesta global

April 15, 2020

Kathryn Sikkink along with Carrie Booth Walling's recent Op-Ed in the New York Times regarding the silence of the UN Security Council on the current COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity for a global response. Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes...

Rights and responsibilities in the Coronavirus pandemic

March 19, 2020

Kathrynk Sikkink's most recent article, for Open Global Rights, speaks on our collective right to health in the current pandemic situation, and the need to balance our individual rights with collective responsibilities. Read the full article here.

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New York Review of Books: Have Human Rights Failed?

April 18, 2019

Have Human Rights Failed? by David Cole April 18, 2019 Issue, New York Review of Books Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

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