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FOREWORDof institutions, but also inconsistent with personal autonomy and the right to privacy.In 2013, Human Rights Watch adopted a policy calling on governments todecriminalize all personal use and possession of drugs, and to adopt alternativepolicies on the drug trade—a “new course” that McFarland argues is vital toavoiding the crippling human costs of the current approach to drug control.More than a decade ago, world governments established eight MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs)—including commitments to reduce child and maternalmortality and achieve universal primary education—all to be achieved by2015. In “Putting Development to Rights,” David Mepham argues that despite realprogress in some areas, the neglect of human rights in the MDGs has diminishedand distorted development efforts, with many people excluded or unable to benefitfrom development programs. More worrying still, many people have beenharmed by economic policies carried out in the name of development. Mephamsuggests that the current UN-led process to establish successor goals to theMDGs provides a crucial opportunity to broaden our understanding of developmentand fully integrate human rights into development policy and practice.Doing so, he says, will help promote more just and inclusive development, andimprove the lives of millions of the world’s poorest and most marginalizedpeople.After 2013’s flood of revelations about pervasive US online surveillance, DinahPoKempner pushes back against those who argue that we must simply live with itbecause public expectations of privacy have eroded (“The Right Whose Time HasCome (Again)”). Privacy, she says, is a crucial “gateway” to almost every otherright, and “nothing less than the shelter in which we work out what we think andwho we are.” Putting the vulnerability that many people feel as lives migrateonline into historical and legal perspective, she describes legal efforts from theend of the nineteenth century to address technological developments seen asmenacing people’s private lives. Once again, she says, technology is evolving andthe law must catch up.The photo essays that follow highlight three underreported human rights crises:child marriage in South Sudan, the impact of the 2014 Sochi Olympics on humanrights in Russia, and the growing human rights and humanitarian tragedy in theCentral African Republic.IX