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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.

Op-Ed in The Hill: Any US military intervention in Venezu​​​​​ela will be counterproductive BY DOUGLAS A. JOHNSON AND KATHRYN SIKKINK, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 02/28/19 11:30 AM EST 61 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF...

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 ( Spanish Translation)

Lecture, " Razones para la esperanza: Los retos a los derechos humanos en el siglo XXI," at the Department of International Studies, Universidad Ort Uruguay, December 2017.

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).

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

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

In this op-ed for The New York Times, Kathryn Sikkink argues "that transitional countries — those moving from authoritarian governments to democracy or from civil war to peace — where human rights prosecutions have taken place subsequently become less...

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