Reimagining the future of rights & governance.

We run experiments for change that advance human rights & global justice in a shifting global context.

An interdisciplinary program, we’re hosted at the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at the NYU School of Law.

FORGE celebrates the arts & sciences as tools to evolve human rights & governance practice.

Read the FORGE Series in the Open Global Rights publication

Watch FORGE 2023 Speaker & Performance Series:

  • Theory of Change Behind FORGE

  • The Inner Life of the Future: Governing with Collapse and Transformation In Mind

  • Indigenous Wisdom for an Ailing Planet

  • For The Living

  • Extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin

  • Reinventing Democracy from the Bottom Up

  • Renewing Democracy & Pushing Back Against Authoritarians

  • Evidence for Hope

  • Unmasked: Seaweed King

  • More Than Human Rights

  • International Justice in a Challenging World

  • Your Word Against Mine? Language, Expertise & Trust in the Making of the Oceans Treaty

  • 75 Years On: The Pathway to Solutions Through Human Rights

  • Remarks in Response to Volker Türk

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