Honor Killings in Iraq
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.
The Stocking Dead: the Danger of Human Automation in Amazon Warehouses
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…
Rights! Stands with Ukraine
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…
Rights! In Review – Editor’s Note 2021
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…
Forty Years Later. A Red Ribbon for Prevention, against Discrimination
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…
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
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…
Re-Envisioning Police Training in the United States: Fostering Education and Collaboration to Adapt Police Responses to Civilians with Disabilities and Mental Illness
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.…
Publishing with us!
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! In Review – Editor’s Notes, 2020
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.
Taking to the Streets: Rights! Call for Papers
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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