Carr-Ryan Center faculty, fellows, and affiliates bring cutting-edge expertise and research on global human rights issues, exploring:
- Notes from the New Frontier of Power: Our Technology & Human Rights Fellowship considers the global contest between surveillance capitalism and democracy.
- Racial Justice in the World: Insights into the global racial justice movement.
- LGBTQI+ Human Rights: Insights into the global LGBTQI+ human rights movement.
- Carr-Ryan Perspectives: Perspectives on current global human rights issues from the Carr-Ryan Center, its faculty, fellows, and affiliates.
- Event Recaps: Human rights insights from the Carr-Ryan Center’s events and guest speakers.
Privacy Makes Neutral Institutions Possible
By Paco Pangalangan, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
A Meaningful DROP in the Messy Bucket That Is the Data Brokerage Industry
By Payas Parab, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26, and Omkar Katre, Associate Researcher, Stanford University
Digital Handmaidens: 'Your Body, Their Data'—Surveillance Capitalism as Reproductive Injustice in the Post-Roe Era
By Nai Lee Kalema, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2024-25, and Sarah Al Futtaim
Dr. King’s Legacy Under Attack in 2026: The Metastasis of Colorblindness into Cultivated Blindness
By Antonio L. Ingram II, Racial Justice Fellow (2025–26)
“Injustice Anywhere”: Martin Luther King Jr., Moral Courage, and the Protests in Iran
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
What Trump Misunderstands About U.S. Interests and the UN
By Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy
Technology, Power, and the Reframing of Human Rights Responsibilities
By Olivier Alais, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
The U.S. Refugee Re-Vetting Order Violates the Principle of Non-Refoulement
By Kimahli Powell, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow
The U.S. Helped Build the Universal Human Rights System. “Natural Rights” Would Tear It Down
By Desirée Cormier Smith and Jessica Stern, Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy Senior Fellows
Reclaiming Western Identity: A Human Rights Day Response to America's New National Security Strategy
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
The EU Must Defend Democracy and Global Labor Rights
By Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez, Senior Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy Fellow
Expressing Gratitude When Elites Fail: Thanksgiving in Disorienting Times
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
