Human rights defenders help us protect our rights, while risking their own life.So today, 8th March, we want to celebrate them, especially Women Human Rights defenders, and two in particular, Malala and Shireen Abu Akleh.
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2022 started with the looming societal and economic consequences of a pandemic we are yet to leave behind and continued with a war that devasted Ukraine, leaving millions homeless (here you can find a list of organizations to support). While the conflict in Ukraine occupied most of the media attention, it was not the only…
Elvino Da Silveira
With the growing popularity of Vtubing, especially in Japan and the US, it could be interesting, as it is with new technologies in general, to ask whether and how this can be used to restore or protect marginalized people’s human rights. This is what Elvino De Silveira does in this contribution.
AMBIKA GUPTA
The LGBTQI+ community has always faced discrimination and marginalisation in numerous socioeconomic domains, but ‘queer migration’ owing to persecution based on someone’s identification is a relatively new issue. In particular, the author details the shortcomings of the refugee protection mechanisms when it comes to adequately protect queer individuals.
Ahmed Marwan Al-Saeedi
Honor killings are still quite frequent in Iraq, more effective strategies to implement women’s rights have to be taken by the state.
By Blaise Nettles* Automating human workers within Amazon Warehouses has led to continuouslyunsafe working conditions. On top of the concern for physical harm caused to workers by thejeopardy Amazon put on the rights of its employees, there is a looming concern for the mentalwellbeing of workers as well. To combat extreme surveillance and gamification, workersolidarity…
We stand with Ukraine and with all those under the bombs, threatened every day. Some of our readers might wonder why we express our solidarity only now, and the reason is simple. Our editorial members were busy trying to find refuge for those fleeing the war, trying to create links between people across borders, giving…
These last two years have been particularly difficult worldwide. While some people lost their loved ones, others lost their jobs or felt the burden of working from home, not traveling, and lacking social interactions. All of this has had a tremendous impact on mental health, to different degrees, but also on the way people have…
ELETTRA REPETTO This year it is the 40th anniversary of the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the first medical document that recognized the disease later known as AIDS. So, this World AIDS Day, to remember this important discovery and look ahead, I discussed HIV with Maria Viscoli of Anlaids, the Italian Association for HIV…
Violence against women is a daily occurrence that affects women all over the world, coming from all social and economic backgrounds. It is a social problem, not a women’s problem and we have to combat it together as a society. To celebrate this important day, Rights! has chosen to offer you a selection of articles…
By Alexandra Tourret Note for readers In the United States, there is no national standard for police training nor is there centralized, federal funding for all law enforcement agencies. There are about 18,000 different law enforcement agencies in the U.S., ranging from small county jurisdictions to medium-sized police departments to state and federal agencies.…
Like many others around the world, Rights! has felt some fatigue during the pandemic. As we are all volunteers, family and professional challenges have unfortunately affected our ability to operate the blog at the level we had hoped. We have now undergone a major internal restructuring to facilitate review and speed up publications. We are…
Rights! Editor-in-chief provides an annual update of our activities and publications over 2020, a summary of what’s new at Rights!, plus our plans for 2021 and beyond.
Rights! are welcoming articles, photographic essays, short documentaries, and other forms of visual art from scholars, practitioners and activists for our new thematic series Taking to the Streets.
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