Iniciativas

The global ecological crisis is a racial justice crisis, and a crisis of historic colonial injustice. Our work on Climate Justice, Racial Justice & Regional Human Rights Systems brings anti-colonial and racial justice to the center of legal, policy, and academic work to combat environmental degradation, climate change, and related displacement. We are striving to disrupt the silos that prevent meaningful trans-national collaboration across movements for racial, climate, and migrant justice. This initiative is directed by S. Priya Morley, who has been based at the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU Law since 2024.

Our work on Race & Human Rights Reimagined was housed from 2019-2024 at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law. Through this Initiative, we aimed to advance and support critical thinking regarding the role of human rights in achieving racial justice and equality.

Within the United Nations human rights system, the Human Rights Council has created Special Procedures–independent experts appointed by the Council to conduct independent fact-finding and monitor thematic issues or specific country situations. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance monitors the contemporary and evolving forms of racial and related injustice, including transmitting urgent appeals and communications to States regarding alleged violations of international law.