Principles for progress
National human rights institutions help build communities where all people can live with dignity, free from violence and discrimination. The Paris Principles, adopted 25 years ago, [...]
Leading change worldwide
A life of dignity and equality. It’s what we all want – and it’s our right. National human rights institutions help make this a reality by [...]
Changing the conversation on human rights
With fake news and social media trolling now firmly part of the everyday media landscape, a growing challenge for human rights groups is to develop new [...]
Fostering collegiality across the Asia Pacific
With social media and video becoming an ever more important tool for education and advocacy, participants from 20 national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the region [...]
Advocating with refugee youth
This is the third year I have led the Communication and Advocacy paper for Auckland University of Technology’s new Master of Human Rights. The course aims to equip a new [...]
Building partnerships for equality
An inspiring group of LGBTI activists and allies met in Bangkok from 25-26 April 2017. We were discussing the progress that has been made since the [...]