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Following the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding, the Global Campus of Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have advanced their collaboration through two recent initiatives.
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The current 7th edition of the Global Campus Policy Observatory revolves around the research project on “Protecting, promoting and enjoying academic freedom: trends, challenges and impacts from a human rights-based approach”. It is funded by the European Commission.
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“Throughout history, music has been central to how people imagine justice and how they demand it. From the blues to flamenco, across cultures and genres, in the face of oppression, music shapes identity, carries memory and voices aspiration.”
Global Campus Alumni Stories is a new publication that brings together the experiences, reflections and professional journeys of its worldwide alumni community. Subtitled “Many Paths, One Commitment to Human Rights,” the volume offers a rich portrait of how graduates of the GC regional Master’s programmes continue to shape institutions, communities and debates on justice and democracy across the globe.
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AHRI Conference 2026 – Enduring Contributions and Challenges: The 60-Year and 20-Year Legacies of the International Covenants and the Human Rights Council
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In 2025, Dorcas Francis Loly Werson made a decision that required extraordinary courage. Leaving her children in South Sudan, she enrolled in the Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) at the University of Pretoria — a step shaped by sacrifice, determination and a deep commitment to advancing the rights of women and girls.
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The Global Campus Alumni (GCA) has launched the 2025–26 edition of its cross-regional alumni-led activities, reaffirming its commitment to supporting young graduates as they take their first independent steps and design and implement their own human-rights initiatives. Fourteen projects were selected for support — dynamic and diverse in scope, and led by alumni themselves.
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Fahim Abrar Abid is a Visiting Researcher at the Global Campus of Human Rights (GCHR) in Venice, examining whether a child’s migration status can justify exclusion from public education in Europe—focusing on undocumented migrant children in Spain’s Melilla enclave.
In Bangkok, at the foot of Wat Saket, Venerable Napan Santibhaddo Thawornbanjob has spent years working where dialogue is most fragile: the conflict-affected south of Thailand. A Buddhist monk and interfaith peacebuilder, he has long brought together Buddhist and Muslim communities, promoting non-violence and mutual understanding. Yet, after years of mediation and community healing, he realised that peacebuilding alone was not enough — lasting peace required a deeper engagement with human rights.
The Global Campus of Human Rights salutes the inauguration of the Shaista Ikramullah Human Rights Education Centre (SIHREC) held on 9 February 2026 in Lahore. Established to advance human rights higher education in Pakistan, the Centre is part of the Huqooq-e-Pakistan II project, implemented by UNDP Pakistan and funded by the European Union.