Friday, February 6, 2026

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 48, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Rachel Chambers, Shareen Hertel, & Cory Runstedler, Human Rights Due Diligence: Views of the Process, From the Ground Up
  • Yulia Ioffe & Hedi Viterbo, Reassessing Age Assessment: When the Violence of Age Meets the Violence of the Border
  • Zahra Motamedi, Religious and Tribal Sovereignty in Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Governance, Its Impact on Women’s and Minorities’ Rights, and Global Implications
  • Valeria Ruiz Pérez, Legitimizing Penality: Human Rights Discourses and Punitivism in Colombia
  • Patient Mpunga-Biayi & Robin Sinchrist-Lecheks, The Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in International Human Rights Law: The Contribution of the Joint General Comment by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
  • Qingxin K. Wang, Locke, Mencius, and Their Conceptions of Human Dignity and Rights