Preparedness

Children born out of wedlock in Pakistan: born and dumped with no rights

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The rights of children born out of wedlock in Pakistan remain hidden and ignored, often wrapped in social, cultural, religious, and legal sensitivities. Their protection requires efforts from national human rights organizations, members of the civil society, and at international community to ensure Pakistan’s compliance with its national and international commitments.

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Elusive justice, perennial transit: the Eastern mediterranean migration corridor returns to public attention

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The upcoming EU Pact on Migration and Asylum reinforces the structural conditions generating permanent transit, embedding the externalisation of border control into the Union’s legal and operational fabric and narrowing migrants’ pathways to protection.

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Cut, silenced, forgotten: Why Singapore must confront female genital mutilation

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Female genital cutting remains hidden in Singapore, often framed as religion, culture, or harmless medical care. Ending it requires public health guidance, religious clarity, community education, and protection for every girl’s bodily autonomy.

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A neurocognitive-based method for elaborating child-accessible judicial rulings: the didactic preface

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Why are child-accessible rulings well intended but ineffective substitutions of a legal judgment? Child-accessible justice needs to consider the neurocognitive traits that are obstacles to justice for children. Ignoring these traits results in child-friendly ‘simulated’ justice.

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Human rights activism: super big or super small or what strategy in times of aggressive populism and post-democracy

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Attacks on human rights activists are frontal, powerful, and effective. The weakening and marginalisation of human rights activism follow two paths. The strategy of resilience and vitality of civil activism is moving in two opposing directions – super big (protests) and super small (volunteering and civic activism). New generations of students, intellectuals, and activists recognise the challenges facing democracy, freedoms, and rights but are determined to change the world.

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Beyond capacity or below obligation? Why Rohingya girls are excluded from education in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh hosts the world’s largest Rohingya refugee population yet has no refugee law. Viewing the camp education system through an intersectional CRC lens reveals that Rohingya adolescent girls’ exclusion from post-primary education is a governance choice that constitutes structural discrimination.

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The armed conflict in Colombia’s peripheral areas: a human rights perspective

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The armed conflict in Colombia requires community-based responses as well as context-specific, intersectional and state-supported strategies to effectively protect human rights in marginalized territories.

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The Person She Was Is Dead: emergencies and lessons for rights-based preparedness

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A review of survivor women in the context of the Beirut Port explosion in 2020 shows how neglecting human rights worsens harm, while rights-based preparedness can turn tragedy into resilience, truth, accountability, and the pursuit of lasting justice.

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A constitution for a state in the making: the draft of the Palestinian interim Constitution

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The draft Palestinian Interim Constitution reflects a unique constitutional process shaped less by internal mobilisation than by international recognition and reform pressures. While it provides important human rights guarantees, concerns remain on executive dominance, legitimacy of the drafting process, and institutional balance.

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A potential off-ramp for fossil fuels?

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The environmental cost of the war against Iran requires us to confront its estimated carbon emissions and how military emissions escape our current accounting. This is a reminder that a switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy is not just about addressing climate change, but also the economy and global security.

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