Let's Recover Better By Standing For Human Rights

"As we come to the end of an unprecedented year, let's make a commitment to recover better by standing up for human rights today and throughout the year to come."

- Dr. Mary T. Bassett

Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Human Rights Day is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity. Commemorated annually by the United Nations, this year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring human rights are central to recovery efforts, tackling entrenched, systematic and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.

In support of the United Nations’ call to action “Stand Up for Human Rights,” we aim to bolster transformative action that can contribute to recovering better and fostering more resilient and just societies. To learn how you can help advocate for human rights that protect us all, please click here:

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About The FXB Center

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University envisions a world that fulfills the health and human rights of all peoples and protects them from injustices imposed by discrimination, poverty, conflict, and disaster. We conduct rigorous investigation of the most serious threats to health and wellbeing globally and work closely with scholars, students, the international policy community and civil society to engage in ongoing strategic efforts to promote equity and dignity for those oppressed by grave poverty and stigma around the world.