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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 .

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...

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...

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

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...