Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge abortion “shield laws” in California, Massachusetts and New York that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills ac...

Amici submit this brief to explain the irreparable harm that this Order causes. It advances two arguments. First, the fracturing of civil society resulting from the Order impairs the functioning of th...

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously found the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors constitutional, upholding a lower court’s ruling from last year.

Five years is a short period in the life of a country but a very long one in the life of a child. A generation of girls has now missed secondary education. Another generation of young women has lost t...

In a landmark ruling issued orally yesterday, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court for the Commonwealth of Dominica decriminalised abortion access in cases

It took until July 7, 2026, for the world's leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution adopt...

As US organizations from across civil society—including legal, human rights, faith-based, humanitarian, academic, and democracy organizations—alongside advocates for victims and survivors of atrocity ...

As the United States ("US") approaches its rescheduled 4th Universal Periodic Review ("UPR"), individuals’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (“SRHR”) continue to deteriorate across the country...

In 2022, Michigan’s citizens went to the polls to make their voices heard on an issue of systemic constitutional importance: the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy. By a wide margin, Michigan...

GENEVA – A UN expert today called on the international community to step up efforts for accountability in Myanmar, saying that decades of impunity have led the country to a human rights catastrophe.

[Marianne Crielle G. Vitug is a Legal Fellow at the Global Justice Center (GJC)] In January 2026, the International Court of Justice held hearings on the merits in the case concerning the Applicati…

As the United States ("US") approaches its rescheduled 4th Universal Periodic Review ("UPR"), individuals’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (“SRHR”) continue to deteriorate across the country...

States now have an opportunity to codify forced marriage as a specific violation in a proposed treaty on crimes against humanity.

March 30, 2026—Developments over the past week in the handling of the allegations of sexual misconduct and retaliation against the International Criminal

The United Nations has completed its investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, according to the President of the Assembly of States Part...

Armed men raided the Global Justice and Research Project’s office in Monrovia on February 20, threatening staff and assaulting a guard. Rights groups condemn the attack and urge Liberia’s government t...