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New York Review of Books: Have Human Rights Failed?

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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

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.

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

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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...

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.

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...

Kennedy School Prof Advocates Optimism About Future of Human Rights

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Kennedy School professor Kathryn A. Sikkink speaks on human rights Thursday evening. Sikkink was joined by psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, Professor Beth Simmons of the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Sergio Aguayo of the Colegio de...

How Do Human Rights Prosecutions Improve Human Rights after Transition?

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Human rights prosecutions are one of the main policy innovations transitional regimes use to address past human rights violations and to prevent future ones. In this article, the authors found that not only those prosecutions that resulted in conviction...

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

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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...

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.

CARR CENTER for Human Rights Policy

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The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America

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Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international human rights trials. In the mid-1980s, scholars of transitions to democracy...

Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America

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Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in domestic and international efforts to enforce individual criminal accountability for human rights violations through trials, but we still lack complete explanations for the emergence of this trend and...