Carr-Ryan Center faculty, fellows, and affiliates bring cutting-edge expertise and research on global human rights issues, including technology, LGBTQI+ rights, racial justice and more.
In the Caribbean, Colonial Era Laws Still Criminalise Love. It's Time to Change That.
By Leo Varadkar, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
Impunity by Design: Transgender Rights and the Erosion of Civil Society in Morocco and Tunisia
By Lamyaâ Achary, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
How Europe's Elections Are Reshaping Queer Rights
By Leo Varadkar, Senior Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
As Culture War Proponents Fixate on LGBTQI+ Rights Globally, India’s Government Removes Hard-Fought Protections from Transgender Indians
By Reginald Greer, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
Protection to Prosecution: The Criminalization of Transgender Existence in India's 2026 Amendment Bill
By Nayyab Ali, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
Visibility Beyond Survival: A Transgender Voice from South Asia in a Time of Global Backlash
By Nayyab Ali, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
The Tug-of-War on Trans Rights in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Session 70
By Henry Tse, International LGBTQI+ Activist Summit Delegate 2024
Transgender Day of Visibility and the Unfinished Work of Liberation
By Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Faculty Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights | Harvard Kennedy School
Censoring Trans Books is a Violation of Human Rights
By Philomena Polefrone, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
Bending the Arc: Europe’s Long Struggle for Rights, and Why It Must Continue
By Leo Varadkar, Senior Fellow (2025-26)
From Strategy to Change: Lessons from Freedom to Marry Global
By Anna Livia Arida, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program Assistant
Queerness as a Battlefield: How Anti-Democrats Both Import & Export Hate
By Rémy Bonny & Diego Garcia Blum
Understanding the Implications of the UK Supreme Court’s Ruling Defining ‘Sex’ in the Equality Act
By Diego Garcia Blum and Timothy Patrick McCarthy
