In our latest article in the New Publication series for Rights! Nasia Hadjigeorgiou discusses her latest publication – Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies (Hart Publishing, 2020).
In our latest article in the series ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Kale Amenge discuss what the “new normal” post-COVID-19 world may look like for Roma populations
In this article, Anmol Jain leads us through a detailed analysis of an important legal case in India that concerns the rights to free speech and internet access – Anuradha Bhasin vs. Union of India
In our latest article in the series ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Charles Slidders discusses some of the challenges facing economic and environmental progressive policy making against the back drop of the coronavirus, huge transfers of wealth in the era of neoliberalism and the subsequent economic turmoil facing millions of people around the world.
CRISTIANO GIANOLLA and PEDRO ALMEIDA This article was originally published as part of the Alice Comments series authored by the Epistemologies of the South Research Programme team, in ALICE News. While the world witnesses a widespread uprising against racism, the role of memory and its public representation have come to the centre of the dispute. The homicide…
In our latest article in the series ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Carole Concha Bell of the Chile Solidarity Network brings our attention to the plight of political prisoners in Chile.
In this new series of articles for Rights! – we talk to human rights authors about their latest books. Kicking off the series is Mariagiulia Giuffré, who discusses her latest publication – The Readmission of Asylum Seekers under International Law (Hart Publishing, 2020).
Rights! are delighted to share this Q&A with London-based poet Laila Sumpton about life, art, human rights and lockdown poetry.
MAHA ABDALLAH AND VITO TODESCHINI
KARTIKEYA JAISWAL and PRANAY MODI
VERONIQUE LERCH
Continuing our series of short think pieces on the theme ‘Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19’, Véronique Lerch discusses the use of war metaphors during the pandemic.
JASMIN LILIAN DIAB
In this article, Jasmin Lilian Diab shines a light on the plight of domestic workers caught under the Kafala system in Lebanon: “migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are not governed by the country’s labour laws, but are rather confined by an archaic Kafala system, an inherently abusive migration sponsorship system, which puts them at an increased risk of being subjected to labour exploitation, forced labour and human trafficking.”
SAPHIA FLEURY
Kicking off our new series of short think pieces on the theme ´Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19′, Saphia Fleury discusses the “wicked problems” of Coronavirus and climate change.
CRISTIANO GIANOLLA
The colonisation of the Moon and the importance of protecting it from exploitation.
KARTHIK SUBRAMANIAM
The attacks against human rights and the rule of law in Cambodia
MARCUS ERRIDGE
A week-long virtual event (12-19 November) to raise awareness around World Toilet Day
CRISTIANO GIANOLLA
A reflection on how Gandhi’s legacy may help to address contemporary challenges
CRISTIANO GIANOLLA
The place of migrants’ body in the neoliberal market society
On challenges and opportunities to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women
We are looking for written pieces, podcasts, videos, slideshares, or photo essays for publication on Rights! in 2019
ELETTRA REPETTO
There is a need to devise human rights-based strategies to fight the criminalization of homelessness
VITO TODESCHINI
An interview with Sam Zarifi, Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists
CRISTIANO GIANOLLA
How to cope with a philosophical vacuum that challenges western liberal democracies?
PASCALE PÉAN
The impact of full-face bans on Muslim women’s rights
MARCUS ERRIDGE
Gender-based discrimination, public bathroom access, and the human right to sanitation in the USA
OTTO SPIJKERS
A judgment reminding of the threat posed by climate change to human rights
A timely analysis of the second round of Brazilian presidential elections
BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS
FRANCESCA MUSSI
The summer of 2018 will be remembered as one of the hottest in Italy with regard to migration. Here we consider three legal issues related to the last contentious case.
WIEBKE LAMER
On the centrality of press freedom to democratic theory and human rights
VITO TODESCHINI
Starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance in contemporary conflicts
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