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Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News about Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?

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Changes in quality and availability of information related to human rights violations raise questions about how best to use existing data to assess human rights change. Information effects are discernible both in primary sources of information and data...

A Human Rights Approach to Sept. 11

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Kathryn Sikkink suggests that we primarily be concerned with the individual victims of rights abuses in this SSRC essay.

Derechos humanos: Extendiendo las Fronteras de la Emancipación

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Human Rights: Advancing the Frontier of Emancipation, Great Transition Initiative ( Spanish Translation)

International Pressure on US Human Rights Matters Now More than Ever

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Click here for Kathryn Sikkink's response to Trump's election and to critiques of human rights.

Wake up, hapless technology users

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Click here to read Kathryn Sikkink's latest op-ed in The Boston Globe, in which she reflects on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The US Turns its Back on Human Rights

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John Shattuck and Kathryn Sikkink comment on the US State Department's closing of its office in Rwanda in this Boston Globe op-ed.

Human Rights: Advancing the Frontier of Emancipation, Great Transition Initiative

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Read Kathryn Sikkink's essay on advancing human rights, and its accompanying roundtable discussion. For Spanish, click here.

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

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

This is What Will Happen if Trump Brings Back Secret Prisons

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With Trump newly in the White House, Averell Schmidt and Kathryn Sikkink consider the possible consequences of a return to the Bush-era policy of secret kidnapping, detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists. Read more here.

H-Diplo Roundtable Review

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Roundtable Review Volume XIX, No. 28 (2018) 2 April 2018 Kathryn Sikkink. Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780691170626 (hardcover, $35.00).

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

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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

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

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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 .