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Human rights Tag

05 Aug

[Larissa Kojoue is a researcher at the LGBT division with Human Rights Watch] Legislation that strips people of their rights is gaining momentum across Africa, in the name of “African Family Values” and “Sovereignty.” It is not driven by popular demands, but rather because domestic actors find it politically rewarding, and external forces find the African continent a strategic arena to advance a coordinated agenda of exclusion...

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31 Jul

[Chantal Joris is a Swiss qualified lawyer and the acting Head of Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19. Dr Ilia Siatitsa is Programme Director at Privacy International. Tomaso Falchetta is Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International.] On 15–17 June 2026, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)  hosted the first Informal Exchange on Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security....

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23 Jul

[Fahimeh Heydari Torkabad is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at Allameh Tabataba'i University and a Lecturer at Kharazmi University] On March 1, 2026, blast waves from a missile strike targeting the Arg Square judicial complex in Tehran reached the Golestan Palace, shattering nineteenth-century stained glass and fracturing its iconic Mirror Hall. UNESCO countered the geopolitical rhetoric by declaring that Golestan Palace represents the irreplaceable story of...

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13 Jul

[Laura Duchamp is a Legal Researcher at the International Commission of Jurists] Children are not merely subjects of protection but rights-holders, entitled to exercise their human rights within fair proceedings. Due to their age and evolving capacities, children need enhanced support to effectively enjoy those rights. The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989 marked a significant step by...

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03 Jul

An Interview with Saad Kassis-Mohamed, Chairman, Human Rights Association Interviewed by Sarah Nader, Legal Research Officer, Kurdish Rights Centre More than a decade after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) launched its systematic campaign of genocide, sexual slavery, and mass atrocity against the Yazidi people, accountability remains fragile, fragmentary, and far from complete. Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were subjected to sexual violence, forced marriage,...

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02 Jul

[Patrick Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford, where his research critically examines how evidence is mediated with a particular focus on open-source investigation, AI, and human rights] Human Rights-focused OSI OSI (open source investigation) practices involve the collection and analysis of information drawn from publicly accessible sources to examine specific events, individuals, and organisations. Although...

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28 May

[Illia Chernohorenko served as Director-General for the Rule of Law Directorate at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, consulted the President of Ukraine on legal reform, and worked at the Supreme Court, representing it in the ECtHR’s Superior Courts Network. He is currently pursuing a DPhil on repurposing state assets as redress for human rights violations. In recent years, he...

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28 May

Cristián Correa is the Head of the Reparations Praxis Hub at the Global Survivors Fund (GSF), where he helps systematise and encourage learning from practical experiences of reparation for survivors of conflict related sexual violence. He also provides guidance to GSF work in Colombia, Syria, and Ukraine, where he helped design and implement the Pilot Project on Urgent Interim Reparation...

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18 May

[Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol and serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town] The recently adopted “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” (unofficial translation, here) was met with widespread condemnation by governments (e.g., here, here), civil society and human rights groups (e.g., here), the UN High...

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08 May

[Dr. Eray Acar is an independent researcher with a PhD in public law from Ankara University. He has worked as a researcher in Ankara University Law School and as a lecturer at Hitit University.] The Steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH/Steering Committee) published an Outcome Document containing elements for a political declaration, which is expected to...

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01 May

[Kamya Vishwanath is an international trade lawyer based in India and will be pursuing her LLM at Georgetown University Law Centre this fall] “If you want to make it as a radical critic these days, slip the word 'body' into your title" Terry Eagleton  ‘Caste’ is a relatively modern concept and a preeminent source of racialized violence in India and the...

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29 Apr

[Paulina Jimenez Fregoso is an advocacy advisor at the Centre for Reproductive Rights] Intersectionality remains contested. While it includes multiple social categories and personal identities, there is far reaching debate about its contours. While race, class and gender were widely accepted for a time, these were later seen to fall short of the complex dynamics of multiple forms of oppression. Helma...

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