Reforming Your Country, Despite the Denouncements Mary Robinson’s lifetime of pushing for social change in Ireland https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/reforming-your-country-despite-the

What Is Accepted Today Might be Prohibited Tomorrow Human rights treaties as living instruments https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/what-is-accepted-today-might-be-prohibited

Some Families Deserve Protection. Others, Apparently, Don't. International Day of Families and what human rights says counts as a family https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/some-families-deserve-protection

Ending Slavery in Brazil - Formally but not Completely How the last country in the Western hemisphere abolished slavery https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/ending-slavery-in-brazil-formally

War Without Limits Means Suffering Without End Henry Dunant: the man who invented humanitarian law https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/war-without-limits-means-suffering

Let Me Speak How Domitila Barrios Cuenca forced the world to hear Bolivia's mining women https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/let-me-speak

Human Rights: Equal on Paper, Unequal in Practice Why it took 37 years before we could enforce socio-economic rights https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/human-rights-equal-on-paper-unequal

Health Is Political, Technical, and Rights-Based Europe dedicates a week to proving it with European Public Health Week https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/health-is-political-technical-and

From Violent Protest to Leisurely Rest May Day and the right to work: more than a day off https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/from-violent-protest-to-leisurely

Rights You Can't Have All at Once Realizing human rights when you ain't got no money, honey https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/rights-you-cant-have-all-at-once

Reducing Impacts of What we can't Prevent The first observance of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/reducing-impacts-of-what-we-cant

Denial is the Final Act Remembering the victims of the Armenian genocide everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/denial-is-...

Who Decides When a Life Ends? Euthanasia, human rights, and the uncomfortable questions in between https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/who-decides-when-a-life-ends

The Planet Isn't a Resource. It's a Rights-Holder. Mother Earth Day and the drive to give the environment rights https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-planet-isnt-a-resource-its-a

Modern solutions for modern problems Celebrating the World Creativity and Innovation Day https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/modern-solutions-for-modern-problems

Time to Get Stoned The war on drugs and how it violates human rights https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/time-to-get-stoned

Obeying Just Laws & Disobeying Unjust Laws Understanding the lessons from the Letter from Birmingham Jail https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/obeying-just-laws-and-disobeying

Protecting Culture in Times of War The symbol of the Universal Day of Culture https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/protecting-culture-in-times-of-war

Are your Avocados Threatening Human Rights? Being mindful when going to the supermarket https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/are-your-avocados-threatening-human

#FreeBritney Clarifying (or deciding) who gets to decide for people with disabilities everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/freebritney

Grandmas Save the World How the landmark KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland case changed climate litigation everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/grandmas-s...

The Case for Global Medicine How the WHO became humanity's most ambitious health project everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

Let the Games Begin! Recognizing human dignity through sport everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/let-the-ga...

How to Become a Billionaire with Human Rights Guaranteed Rights = 💰 Guaranteed Money 💰 everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

*Special post for [what was] Cesar Chavez Day* How do we honor a movement when its leader caused harm to the people it was meant to protect? What does it mean to recognize the great accomplishments of that man side by side with his gross crimes? everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/from-saint...

Announcing our first guest author! Thank you Patricio Trincado Vera for sharing your expertise and writing today's post. A Stepping Stone to the Rights of Nature La Oroya v. Peru: protecting inhabitants and nature is one and the same everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/a-stepping...

The Three Duties Behind Every Right A simple framework for accountability substack.com/home/post/p-...

"If we want human rights to mean dignity in practice, we have to do the behind-the-scenes work too." This week we've covered: ▪️Human dignity ▪️Bayard Rustin ▪️My Lai massacre ▪️End of impunity ("amnesty") laws in Latin America ▪️the right to counsel Subscribe for more! everydayhumanrights.substack.com

The Man Behind the March Bayard Rustin and his work for two civil rights movements everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-man-be...

When War Became Massacre From dehumanization to impunity in Vietnam everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/when-war-b...

No Amnesty for Atrocity Dismantling the legal shield protecting human rights abusers everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/no-amnesty...

Finding Dignity in Rights The source and purpose of human rights

It's women's week! This week we've covered: ▪️Int'l Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation ▪️Dred Scott and citizenship's connection with rights ▪️gender equality ▪️Nadia Murad ▪️ICCPR ▪️A special post on female advocates If you want to learn more, subscribe for free! everydayhumanrights.substack.com

Civil Rights are Human Rights The document that made civil rights a global commitment everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/civil-righ...

From Powerless Victim to Global Voice for Survivors Transforming lived trauma into a global human rights movement everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/from-power...

Women’s Day, Women’s Week, Women’s Month Why one day isn’t enough to achieve justice everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/womens-day...

Happy International Women’s Day! "When zooming out to the situation worldwide, women only have 64% of the legal rights men have." Today we celebrate the incredible women striving for rights that we've highlighted in Everyday Human Rights this year. everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/happy-inte...

Weapons Bring Peace Like Gasoline Puts Out Fires Marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/weapons-br...

"Disasters test whether rights are real when they're most needed." See this week's posts on nature and human rights, including natural hazards and medicinal plants. This week's highlighted advocates: * Sergei Kovalev (Russia) * Meena Keshwar Kamal (Afghanistan) Everydayhumanrights.substack.com

Leaving a Legacy The woman who protected her people from a dangerous investment everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/leaving-a-...

Wildlife in a Wild World Finding the human in World Wildlife Day everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/wildlife-i...

Organize. Enter. Stand Firm. From exile to office and back to opposition everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/organize-e...

February is a Wrap! We explored how everyday life—from beans to vacations—connects to human rights through our choices and allocation of resources. Join us for our continued spotlighting of human rights activists and key concepts. See you next month! everydayhumanrights.substack.com

"To remember is to resist." The ideas we explored last week include: - Japanese-Americans internment - social justice - speaking one's mother tongue - judicial review - the People Power Revolution Bonus: tomorrow's post is our first reader-suggested topic! everydayhumanrights.substack.com

Time for our weekly wrap-up! It's been a week of celebrating scientific achievements, protecting vulnerable groups, and eating beans 🫘! We loved hearing from you about how much you enjoyed us "spilling the beans" about human rights. Let us know what to cover next! everydayhumanrights.substack.com

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