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The program, made possible by the Global Campus’s extensive network, exposes interns to a myriad of human rights topics, including child rights, women’s rights, refugee protection, legal case management, climate change, and migration.
Unlocking Professional Growth: Global Campus Celebrates Impactful Internship Journeys Read More »
The Press Office had the occasion to interview Adriana Caravelli sharing her experience in the CEDU Training.
Interview with Adriana Caravelli Read More »
The Press Office of the Global Campus of Human Rights had the honour to interview 2012 Right Livelihood Laureate Sima Samar about her important work as an Afghan activist and her participation in our EMA Graduation Ceremony.
Interview with Sima Samar, 2012 Right Livelihood Laureate Read More »
The Press Office had the opportunity to interview the young child rights advocate Amrit Rijal from Nepal engaged in the field since 2015. He is a medical student at Kathmandu University, a research enthusiast, and also an actively advocating medical education campaigner.
Interview with Amrit Rijal, Young Child Rights Advocate Read More »
As members of the Global Campus of Human Rights community, we are witnessing the ongoing conflict and massive human suffering in Palestine and Israel with horror and dismay. We express profound empathy and solidarity with victims on all sides of the conflict, whomever they may be. Being resolutely committed to international human rights and humanitarian law, we categorically and without reservation denounce any and all gross human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law in the unfolding conflict. As a network of more than 100 universities in all world regions engaged in human rights education, we are particularly concerned about the recent raid of one of our member universities, Birzeit University in Ramallah, the arrest of 32 of its Palestinian students since 7 October, and the negative effects on our Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights based in Lebanon, where students and professors are increasingly afraid to participate in person and have partly left the country, as well as the exposure of children in Gaza who are part of our Child Leadership Team to unimaginable deprivation and distress. We are also concerned about the conflict’s polarising effects around the world, witnessing an increase in expressions of antisemitism and islamophobia and excessive restrictions of freedom of speech and assembly in many countries worldwide. We express solidarity with all our professors, staff, students and graduates who are directly affected or have friends and family members among victims at either side of the conflict. We are appalled by the suffering of Palestinian civilians as a result of Israel’s military response to the atrocities perpetrated on its territory on 7 October 2023. This has by the time of writing the present statement led to the death of more than 11,000 innocent individuals, more than 4,000 of whom are children. It has further led to a massive dislocation of the population of Gaza, to an unprecedented loss of livelihood and property, to lack of access to essential necessities of life and medical treatment and to continuous anxiety and traumatisation. Israel is in this context clearly in breach of its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law. As substantiated by evidence furnished by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and as expressly stated by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, ‘the collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to a war crime, as does the unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians.’ There is, moreover, mounting evidence that Israel’s military actionsin Gaza, and notably the relentless air strikes against urban areas that entail unspeakable civilian casualties, are in violation of the principle of proportionality under international humanitarian law. We are shocked that more than 100 staff workers of the UN Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), who continue to provide life-saving humanitarian emergency assistance to Palestinian refugees in Gaza, have been killed. We are also alarmed by recent reports of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) about the rapidly deteriorating situation of hospitals and other health care facilities in Gaza as well as the destruction of schools, mosques and churches. The specific record in this regard will have to be determined in subsequent investigations and legal proceedings, holding perpetrators to account. Beyond the atrocities in Gaza, we observe with alarm that Israeli settlers in the Palestinian West Bank are seizing the armed conflict as an opportunity for further illegal land grabs. This is in blatant violation of international law and existing international agreements and only serves to further subvert the possibility of any future peace. Such actions are shamefully being condoned and in several instances even supported by the current Israeli government. On the side of Hamas, extremely brutal crimes against humanity were committed on an extensive scale in the 7 October attacks that have instigated the current wave of conflict. We are outraged at the cruelty displayed in the cold blooded murder of up to 1,200 innocent Israeli and foreign civilians, including children and young people attending a cultural event, and in particular at the shameless and ostentatious perpetration of sexual violence in attacks on civilians, which has garnered surprisingly limited attention by international observers otherwise committed to upholding international human rights and taking a firm stance against any form of sexual violence in armed conflict. Hamas is continuously violating international humanitarian law by holding more than 200 individuals, mostly civilians, hostage and by systematically employing human shielding and the military use of protected civilian sites (notably hospitals) for military purposes. There is recurrent evidence of Hamas actively barring vulnerable civilians from escaping immediate exposure to harm. The persistent cynical instrumentalisation of Palestinian suffering shows that Hamas is not only killing Israeli civilians but also shows no respect for the lives of Palestinian civilians living under their control. This is a profoundly disturbing feature of the conflict that must be categorically condemned by anyone committed to upholding universal human rights and the rights of Palestinians to a life in dignity. In reacting to the unfolding humanitarian disaster, we call upon the involved parties and implicated international actors to be decisively oriented towards establishing conditions for a possible future just and dignified coexistence of the inhabitants of Israel and Palestine. As foreseen already in UNGA resolution 194 of 11 December 1948 (the day after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), the international community’s indispensable commitment must be to inhabitants on both sides ‘wishing to… live at peace with their neighbours’. Any attempt at rationalising and implicitly or explicitly justifying breaches of established standards of international human rights and humanitarian law is detrimental to such a future-oriented peace-building process, as are government-condoned land-grabbing actions by Jewish settlers and Israel’s continued demeaning and systematic undermining of Palestinian self-rule in both Gaza and the West Bank. Equally abhorrent is the avowed intent of Hamas, as affirmed in its founding and revised Covenants, to dispel Jews and eradicate the State of Israel and,
Global Campus of Human Rights Statement on the Recent Events in Israel and Palestine Read More »
The book was launched on 3rd March 2023 by Veronica Gomez, GC President and Manfred Nowak, GC Secretary General within the presentation of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, organised by Manu Krishan, Global Study Coordinator at the Global Campus and held at the Auditorio Belgrano of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.
The Lisbon Forum was an invaluable platform for connecting with individuals dedicated to addressing climate change and economic crimes.
The 29th Lisbon Forum of the Council of Europe – A Contribution by a GC Alumna Read More »
The launch event simultaneously commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights (UDHR)
Celebrating the Opening of GC Central Asia Read More »
Following the success of many important activities of our network, the Global Campus of Human Rights published the tenth edition of its seasonal Magazine in English and Italian. This promotional publication is structured in the following sections: Interviews by the Press Office and Contributions ; News and Events of the Global Campus of Human Rights at local and international level. Promotion campaigns to raise awareness of our impact and attract more supporters. “The broad variety of contributions and interviews covered by the 10th edition of the Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine shows that the Global Campus has grown far beyond our core activity of organising regional Master programmes in different world regions. Even within this core activity of post-graduate human rights education, we are expanding with an 8 th Master on Human Rights and Sustainability in Central Asia (MAHRS) starting in September 2023, based at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.” Secretary General Manfred Nowak Read the Magazines in our Open Knowledge Repository. For more information, contact our Press and Communications Offices: Elisa Aquino – Isotta Esposito – Giulia Ballarin pressoffice@gchumanrights.org – communications@gchumanrights.org #GCHumanRights #GCHumanRightsPress #GCHumanRightsMagazine
Tenth Issue of the Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine Read More »
The Global Campus and the GC Caucasus hub are glad to announce a new capacity development project with the Moldova State University, thanks to the support of the EU Delegation in Chisinau. Over the next 18 months, the action “Development of Climate Justice and Human Rights Education at the Moldova State University (MSU)” will focus on the setting up of an interdisciplinary Lab on climate justice and human rights between the Faculties of Law and Biology, which flagship activity will be a credit-based cross-regional summer school that involves lecturers and students from Moldova and universities/countries of the EU enlargement Eastward. The project will allow for the State University, as a new GC member, to contribute to the promotion and protection of environmental rights and climate justice by producing and disseminating critical knowledge for policy change, in the context of the EU enlargement. This will be achieved through curriculum and teaching tools development, teachers training in theory and practical skills, including specialized language training, refurbishment of teaching spaces and outreach activities. In the project logic, a follow-up phase shall later transform the Lab into a Centre, and the School into the first post-graduate MA in this subject for this region. The innovation of the project lays in its interdisciplinarity, evidenced by the exceptional cooperation with the faculties of Law and Biology, but also in the cross-regional approach: for the first time, three GC hubs, namely GC Caucasus/CES, GC Europe/EMA and GC South East Europe/ERMA will join forces to implement a collaborative human rights education initiative of universities from the Western Balkans, Caucasus, and the Eastern Partnership countries. This new sub-regional project is the result of the ongoing cooperation with the MSU, initiated in early 2023 after a comprehensive mapping, consultation and needs assessment process, and under the backing of the government of the Republic of Moldova. A multi-year MoU was hence signed by MSU, GC and GC Caucasus with the goal of supporting the MSU’s integration within the regional network, through the newly established GC Capacity Development programme. A first project funded by Right Livelihood was then kick-started in January 2023 and after intensive work has already allowed for the creation of skills and tools to set-up new human rights education courses at the Law Faculty in Chisinau (European Standards of child rights protection; IT and human rights). These two courses are being piloted during this semester, also enabling the mobility of GC Caucasus students. Given these encouraging outcomes, the MSU was already accepted as a new GC member by the General Assembly in September 2023. The GC was later proposed to extend the cooperation to develop a thematic specialization in environmental rights and climate justice with a human rights perspective, in the context of the EU integration process. Such perspective was welcomed both at the GC and in talks with the EU, hence an extensive preparation process has later led to the awarding of a grant for its implementation. Eventually, the project was inaugurated in a public event held at the Faculty of Law in Chisinau on March 1st, with the participation of Minister of the Environment Ms Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov, the University leadership, representatives of the EU Delegation, delegates of the Global Campus and the project team. Currently, environmental rights and climate justice education are thematic pillars of the GC action. Understanding the systemic and structural factors contributing to both climate change and social injustice is the initial step toward envisioning and advocating for solutions that address these root causes. This is particularly true in the developing countries of South-eastern and Caucasian Europe, such as Moldova, which lag behind in terms of effective and right-based environmental policies. “This initiative could be a first step towards making substantial progress of the MSU in providing expertise at the national and regional on subjects that have been neglected, but which are vital”. Ms. Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov, Minister of Environment This project is part of the GC Capacity Development programme. For more information contact adriano.remiddi@gchumanrights.org