Human rights run through the heart of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and your work is key in promoting human rights across the world. To celebrate Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023, our publishing editors have curated a collection of your research exploring the importance of protecting and preserving our human rights achievements to date. 

Find author insights and hand-selected titles from across Springer Nature and read the most recent and relevant research for free for a limited time.

We hope that the below content will help to raise awareness, bring together researchers and other communities of people who are striving to solve grand challenges, in new partnerships and new ways of collaborating and support SDG16 and its focus on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Special issue

Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflicts from Journal of International Humanitarian Action

International Organizations, Humanitarian Action and Human Rights: Effects of COVID19 from Journal of International Humanitarian Action

Agenda for Humanity Revisited from Journal of International Humanitarian Action

Information for authors

Contact a publishing editor © Mitarart, iStockphotoGetting started publishing your SDG 16 work at Springer Nature is easy. Springer Nature aspires to lead in publishing SDG research, and especially in open access (OA) SDG research.

You can add impact and power to your SDG-related research when you publish it at Springer Nature, and alongside leading research (like the examples above). Research published OA at Springer Nature gets more exposure. For example, research published in fully OA Springer Nature journals are downloaded over 7,000 times on average (up to 5x more than competitors) and cited 7.39 times on average.

Publishing with Springer Nature gives you:

  • A range of journals, from Nature, Springer, and BMC, both hybrid and OA. The journals with SDG content curated above are a small selection of journals you can publish in. Clicking through on them will give you the information — including journal metrics, submission guidelines and more — that you need to plan your next submission.
  • The world’s leading scholarly book program, including the option to publish your book OA. ᐅSDG 16 OA Books
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