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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.
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.
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.
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.
The armed conflict in Colombia’s peripheral areas: a human rights perspective Read More »
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.
The Person She Was Is Dead: emergencies and lessons for rights-based preparedness Read More »
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.
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.
A potential off-ramp for fossil fuels? Read More »
This personal account of the Chișinău conference (March 2026) highlights the European Social Charter as a cornerstone of democratic resilience. While renewed momentum for stronger commitments emerged, advancing social rights for all, tackling poverty, and ensuring effective implementation remain critical targets to sustaining Europe’s social model.
Echoes of Chișinău: momentum for the European Social Charter system Read More »
Despite Pakistan’s human rights commitments, transgender men and AFAB gender-diverse individuals remain invisible. Discrimination and violence against them are under-reported, revealing gaps between legal protections and lived realities.
The war between the United States, Israel and Iran may appear geographically distant from Africa. Yet its consequences are being felt across the continent. For millions of Africans from the Horn of Africa to Uganda, Sudan, the Gulf of Guinea and South Africa, among others, the conflict is not simply a geopolitical crisis. It is rapidly becoming a human rights crisis driven by inflation, food insecurity, disrupted trade, and heightened regional instability.
How US-Israel attack on Iran is impacting Africa Read More »