Category: Human Rights

QUERETARO, Mexico (WCSC/Gray News) – The Mexican National Guard said it discovered four skulls, apparently of human origin, that were scheduled to be sent to South Carolina. The package was registered to a courier and parcel company and guardsmen made the discovery inside the Querétaro Intercontinental Airport, where they are authorized to carry out random […]

Restoring Bipartisanship in the Public and Private Sectors 2019 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship Lecture Presented by Michael H. Posner 2019 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at NYU, Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics & Finance, and Director, Center for Business & Human Rights, NYU Stern School of Business November 21, 2019 I am honored to […]

1 year since foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban came to power, life is still unbearably hard, particularly for women and girls. Half of the population remains dependent on humanitarian aid, including 6 million living on the edge of famine. Debt has racked up as food prices have skyrocketed. Drought, warming temperatures and […]

RIGHTS group Ain O Salish Kendra, which made public its annual rights situation report in Dhaka on December 31, has described the outgoing year of 2022 as ‘horrifying’ in terms of rights abuse, urging the government to respect civil and political rights, including the right to peaceful assembly, and to form an independent commission to […]

*This exercise is to be used for educational purposes. If you wish to copy components of this exercise please reach out to Victoria Anderson: [email protected], or cite the NYU Stern, Center for Business and Human Rights. Thank you. (Nov 2020)*   Silverlake in China Investor Responsibility for State Surveillance in Xinjiang The allure of doing […]

“I was born with a male anatomy, but I have always felt like a woman.” Alejandra is a 40-year-old transgender woman from Venezuela. She grew up in a family where her feelings of being trapped in a body that did not reflect her identity were not understood. This atmosphere of isolation and the stigmatisation of […]

“The only thing that’s changed in the last six months is that people are realizing the thing we’ve been talking about and thinking for the last decade is real, and it’s here, and that their loved ones are being affected,” said Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and executive director of We Testify. “I think people are […]

We have become used to our world being one of haves and have-nots. Every year, people who believe a safer or more prosperous life awaits them elsewhere take a leap into the unknown; for a leap it is. Thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis leave their often unsafe homes for the lure of work in Saudi […]

Asma is a single Rohingya mother to three children. She and her children had to leave their home in Myanmar when violence broke out against the Rohingya in 2017. © Habiba Nowrose/IRC. Not a day goes by that Asma can’t remember life before she was a refugee. Originally from Maungdaw, a town in Myanmar bordering […]

Why is the EU funding psychosocial support centres in Yemen? Because mental health needs are high, but services are scarce. After almost 8 years of unrelenting conflict and hardship, 1 in 5 Yemenis are believed to suffer from a mental health disorder, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Girls and women like Suhair […]