Healing Systems (February 2024)

by jade | Jul 17, 2025

Healing Systems Laura Calderon de la Barca, Katherine Milligan & John Kania How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems. Read More RELATED RESOURCES Addressing trauma and emotions...

Here’s how your mental health depends on collective wellbeing (April 2021)

by jade | Jun 2, 2025

Here’s how your mental health depends on collective wellbeing  Geoff Mulgan Mental health is nearly always seen as an individual issue requiring individual solutions. Yet in reality it’s as much a problem for groups and organizations. One legacy of the COVID-19 crisis...

Resilience as Resistance: Mental health and well-being in human rights, Open Global Rights Blog Series

by mridul80 | Apr 21, 2025

Resilience as Resistance: Mental health and well-being in human rights Open Global Rights Blog Series A blog series that examines a range of critical questions and issues relating to the mental health and wellbeing of human rights activists. Topics discussed include...

Donor Ethics and the Revolution in the Making: Understanding the Role of Well-being in Human Rights Funding

by mridul80 | Apr 13, 2025

Donor Ethics and the Revolution in the Making: Understanding the Role of Well-being in Human Rights Funding,  International Human Rights Funders Groups, (2016) This important piece discusses how rights work impacts the well-being of human rights funders, and discusses...

Self-care as a Political Strategy

by mridul80 | Apr 13, 2025

Self-care as a Political Strategy Ana María Hernández Cárdenas and Nallely Guadalupe Tello Méndez, SUR International Journal on Human Rights, 26 (2017) This article by the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) and the Consortium for...