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Human rights Tag

06 Jun

[Emma Neuber is a member of the Samos-based NGO I Have Rights and an LLM candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway] I was running for freedom and came to a prison.An asylum seeker from the Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos, Greece Detention has become a prevalent response to irregular migration, reflecting the ever-increasing securitisation of migration...

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05 Jun

[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics] In early 2025, hundreds of migrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, and beyond found themselves confined in a hotel in Panama City. Desperate notes scrawled on scraps of paper and pressed against windows pleaded for help. These individuals had been removed from the United...

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30 May

[Lisa Reinsberg is the founding executive director of the International Justice Resource Center, a PhD candidate with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law] Human rights oversight bodies have rejected an unknown number of complaints because individual complainants used language that was insulting or offensive to...

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30 May

[Yifan Jia is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, and a research associate at the Global Governance Centre at Geneva Graduate Institute. John Binns is a partner at BCL Solicitors LLP. He is a specialist in proceeds of crime laws, sanctions, tax investigations, and the regulation of cannabis.] Historically, mechanisms for...

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29 May

[Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou is an Associate Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at UCLan Cyprus.] People have always gone missing and their loved ones have always sought to establish their fate. In this endeavour,...

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28 May

[Gustavo Prieto works for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and is Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Law Faculty of Ghent University, Belgium] Blockchain technology, with its decentralized and global reach, is transforming how rules, authority, and accountability are understood. Far from being confined to cryptocurrency payments, blockchain is rapidly shaping key arenas such as digital identities, supply chains, and the...

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27 May

[Valeria Ruiz-Perez is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York) and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Law School. She is a main researcher of the Rethinking accountability from the bottom: Setting a research agenda on traditional grassroots justice mechanisms (TGJMs) project.  Piergiuseppe Parisi is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for...

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26 May

[Jorge Peniche is an international lawyer specializing in transitional justice and accountability, with a focus on emerging settings. He is the Associate in Mexico at G37 Centre and an Associate Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), where he teaches on transitional justice, organized crime and security. He holds a Master of Laws from New York University.] Preludium: “I Want Consequences…” “I want consequences,”...

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26 May

[Ben Grama is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. He is part of the inter-institutional multidisciplinary iBOF project “Future-proofing human rights: Developing thicker forms of accountability”, a collaboration between the Universities of Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, and Hasselt. His work focuses on devising a thick conception of accountability drawing on the overall research findings of...

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19 Mar

[Javier Urizar is a Guatemalan human rights lawyer, currently working at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)] A Spanish version of this post has been published on Agenda Estado de Derecho here. National courts have always had an inseparable relationship with human rights. As the controlbody by excellence, they have been fundamental in limiting the acts of authority and sanctioning those...

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01 Aug

[Eoin Jackson is a PHD Candidate at LSE] At present, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) is considering its Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights. The proceedings follow on the heels of the landmark European Court of Human Rights decision in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, where the Court issued a declaratory judgment that the human rights of the...

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19 Jul

[Faraz Shahlaei is an Adjunct Professor of law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles] Introduction The intersection of human rights and sports has reached a crucial point with the Grand Chamber (GC) of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) taking over the Caster Semenya case. The case alleges human rights violations on several grounds due to DSD (Differences of Sexual Development)...

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