Human Rights

How can business and CSR professionals further engage with and support aging populations? A multifaceted approach is key.

U.S. military assistance is finally on its way to Ukraine after months of being held up in Congress. Reactions to the US$61 billion spending package, signed into law by President…

Staff shortages have long been a challenge for prison agencies, given the low pay and grueling nature of the work. But the coronavirus pandemic — and its impact on the labor…

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and…

The road to making legal equal protection real, proactive, and effective is long, but it begins with being clear about the destination.

The 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education found that separating students by race violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause, but the legacy of segregation remains.

Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military…

Considerable research evidence links childhood experiences of poverty to harmful effects on physical and mental health, social and behavioral functioning, and cognitive, academic, and educational outcomes. Yet little is known…

The Breakfast Club teaches youth how to raise hogs, helping first-generation farmers pursue a career in agriculture.

Chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, asthma, HIV infection, and mental illness may be greatly undertreated among incarcerated people.

When I was a young researcher studying how forested ecosystems recover from wildfire, I brought my 6-month-old daughter with me to Yellowstone National Park. These forests are incredibly resilient to…

In 2018, David Blagdon was released from prison. Years of appeals, judicial reviews and public petitions had failed to persuade the relevant bodies that he was not a threat to the public.…