Marco Rubio's proposal will wipe out expertise and infrastructure that promote justice abroad and keeps Americans safe at ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...

Importantly, the United States has only ratified three treaties out of nine core international human rights conventions that have been negotiated and adopted since World War II. The treaties that were ...

The U.S. led efforts to create the UN human rights system after World War II, including drafting the UDHR, but the country has struggled to follow through with its commitments. In the last seven ...

Since 2007, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College has offered an interdisciplinary Certificate in Human Rights and International Justice to students in BC’s graduate ...

The 2025 Boswell Symposium once again proved to be a powerful platform for critical dialogue, bringing together scholars, students, and community members to engage in one of the most pressing ...

This sparked local and national protests that served as a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement — one of the largest social justice movements in the U.S. Delia Addo-Yobo, a staff attorney at ...