Coronavirus

Human Rights activists attend the birthday party of jailed Iranian Human Rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, outside the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran on May 31, 2019 in The Hague, Netherlands.

Trapped in a Pandemic: Iran’s Political Prisoners Face COVID-19 Behind Bars

Political prisoners in Iran were already living in inhumane and unsanitary conditions, but now the coronavirus is spreading rapidly through prisons.

Sep. 24, 2020 Tzvi Kahn

Abortion rights activists rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2019. Signs read, "Safe abortion is a human right" and "Keep abortion legal."

UN Experts to Trump Administration: Reproductive Rights are Human Rights

It is crucial to call out US efforts to undermine the UN human rights system and erase the well-established framework of rights protections.

Sep. 18, 2020 Risa E. Kaufman

Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, does not wear a face mask while opening the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly. To his right and somewhat socially distanced is Secretary-General António Guterres, who wears a face mask.

National Security at the United Nations This Week (Sept. 11-18)

The UN General Assembly opens its 75th session in NYC; the Security Council extends UN missions in Afghanistan, Libya; UN fact-finding missions in Venezuela and Syria issue reports;…

Sep. 18, 2020 Tim Hirschel-Burns

OECD Chart of United States and South Korea harmonized unemployment rates from Oct. 2019-July 2020. The chart shows the two countries had approximately the same unemployment rate before March 2020, around 3.5% to 4%. By April 2020, the unemployment rate in the U.S. rose to about 14%, while South Korea stayed approximately the same. The rate in South Korea peaked at 4.5% in May 2020, and remained between 3 and 4.5% thereafter. The U.S. rate decreased after April, but has not returned anywhere close to the levels it was at before. In July 2020, the rate remains over 10%.

Mass Job Losses and Other Economic Costs of President Trump’s Inaction on Coronavirus

An economic analysis of the impact of federal mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic, including effects on unemployment and recession.

Sep. 15, 2020 Ryan Zamarripa

An aerial view San Quentin State Prison on July 08, 2020 in San Quentin, California.

Hardwired Against Change: Race, Incarceration, and COVID-19

"Given the unique risks of exposure, infection, and death in prisons, jails and detention centers, challenging carceral secrecy is even more important than ever in the midst of…

Aug. 26, 2020 Andrea Armstrong

Migrants walk after crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico at the Rio Grande river, as they walk in El Paso, Texas, on June 27, 2019 as taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Border Justice in the Age of Pandemic

"As the dynamics of closure continue, we should push ever more strongly to build a legal and political agenda against violence and discrimination at our borders. The new agenda…

Aug. 21, 2020 Itamar Mann