Raising the bar: The need for high-quality healthcare for incarcerated youth
Children in the criminal justice system have complex physical and mental health needs that are often exacerbated by incarceration and go ignored.
human rights
International Women's Day: The Yazidis’ global quest for justice
On this year’s International Women’s Day, we remember the 74th genocide committed against the Yazidi community in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) over a decade ago. Women and children were abducted, sexually abused, and forced into slavery.
Black History Month 2025
This 2025 Black History Month theme is African Americans and Labor so we recall that “everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
The Universal Declaration at 75 – Looking Back and Forward
On December 10th, 2023, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the seminal and aspirational foundation for post World War II human rights principles, will turn 75.
New Study on Romani American Experience Shines Light on Persistent Inequities and Discrimination
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University today released a new study that draws attention to the inequities the Roma diaspora faces in the United States. Published in collaboration with the advocacy nonprofit…
Harvard University Centers Condemn Recent Police Violence in the United States
The following is a joint statement from the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the International Human Rights…
New Study Highlights Critical Gaps in the United States’ Special Education System
A new Harvard Educational Review article, “Racial Differences in Special Education Identification and Placement,” examines how the United States’ special education system is failing to serve communities of color equitably from start to finish, from…
Trauma as a Border Control Strategy
By Jacqueline Bhabha and Mary T. Bassett
The United States continues to pull ahead in a xenophobic race to the bottom, making fear and trauma central to its border control toolkit. The list is long: Executive orders purporting to ban Muslims, slashing…
Professor Bhabha: States Have an Obligation to Protect Migrant Children
A new International Organization for Migration (IOM) report released today takes a closer look at the deaths and disappearances of migrants around the world.
“Fatal Journeys: Volume 4” focuses on missing migrant children. According to IOM data, nearly…
One in One Hundred: Roma Value Education But Face Racism in Access
One in One Hundred: Drivers of Success and Resilience among College-Educated Romani Adolescents in Serbia
New report on factors for success among Romani college students challenges the narrative of Roma indifference to education
For immediate…
