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.
Where Human Rights and Business Interests Converge: New Data on Disability Inclusion and Career Advancement
By Reid Jewett Smith, Carr-Ryan Fellow (2025-26)
The Lion and the Fury: Faces of American Leadership and the Soul of the West
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
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)
Singular Crime, Double Duty: Germany, Israel, and the Palestinian People after the Holocaust
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
"Epic Fury:" Pete Hegseth, His Comments on Harvard, and the Erosion of America's Military Soul
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
Spyware Cases in Europe and Africa Spotlight Privacy and Accountability
By Jonathan Rozen, Technology and Human Rights Fellow (2025-26)
Governance by Procurement: How AI Rights Became a Bilateral Negotiation
By Olivier Alais, Technology & 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)
A Much-Needed Victory for the Rule of Law: And Why JD Vance’s Farcical Outburst Gives Me Hope
By By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
From Strategy to Change: Lessons from Freedom to Marry Global
By Anna Livia Arida, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program Assistant
Reclaiming the West from Civilizational Panic: A Human-Rights-Based Reply to Marco Rubio’s Speech at the Munich Security Conference
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
Black History in Reprise: Choruses of Social Change, Conspiracies to Mute, and Hopes for Resounding Encores
By Antonio L. Ingram II, Racial Justice Fellow (2025-26)
Power as a Trust, Not a Possession: Washington's Farewell and the Moral Failure of Trump's Presidency
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
The Intimidating State: "The Perfidious Lust for Unbridled Power" in the Streets of Minneapolis
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
The Unfinished Fight for Data Protection: Power, Privacy, and Control in the Age of AI
By Olivier Alais, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26