Carr Center Annual Report 2023-24

As we celebrate the Carr Center's 25th anniversary, the state of world affairs has made our work in human rights research and training more important than ever. Conflicts around the world, including those between Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, internal wars in Yemen and Sudan, and instability in Afghanistan, among others, have led to pressing humanitarian crises that require international attention. Technological advancements—including the rise of evermore convincing deepfakes and AI art—propose significant cultural questions that can change every facet of our society. These events and more present us with human rights challenges that require our immediate attention, expertise, and continued research, advocacy, and collaboration to find solutions to some of the world's most intractable problems.

Our 2023–2024 annual report highlights the Carr Center's growing research and programming efforts over the past year to encourage and ensure a future of more robust worldwide human rights policies. From the launch of our new Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program and the culmination of our Transitional Justice Program's research findings to the release of our lauded Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights publication that features the expertise of 90 Harvard faculty and affiliates, the Carr Center's impact on the global human rights policy sphere is larger than ever before. Our latest research, publications, podcast episodes, webinars, and more over the course of the year have reached hundreds of thousands of people in over 170 countries.

Thank you to our community: the Carr Center's faculty, fellows, staff, and Advisory Board; the students of Harvard Kennedy School; and each on of you who has joined us this past year. Your consistent engagement makes our work possible.