We are excited to announce the release of the latest issues of volume 8 of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. These new issues reaffirm our commitment to advancing in-depth scholarship and critical discussions on today’s pressing human rights and democratisation challenges.
Issue 1: Human Rights in an Age of Fragmentation and Resistance. The first issue of Volume 8 is closely tied to current developments, where human rights face profound challenges worldwide. From widening geopolitical fractures to the rise of authoritarian populism, the universality of rights is increasingly questioned, even as people across the globe continue to mobilise a rights-based language in their daily struggles.
Issue 2: Human Rights Amid Resistance, Memory, and Migration. The second issue explores the changing terrain of human rights, where struggles for justice are bound up with contested histories, fragile democracies, and new patterns of displacement. These contributions remind us that while rights aspire to universality, their enactment is always mediated by political, historical, and socio-economic conditions.
As co-editors, Ravi Prakash Vyas, Chiara Altafin and Mariana Hadzijusufovic share:“GCHRJ volume 8 (2024) reflects the shifting landscape of human rights in a world marked by turbulence, contestation, and resilience. Issues 1 and 2 together reveal how human rights discourse operates across diverse geographies and themes from courts and constitutions to prisons, classrooms, and borderlands. Human rights are always shaped by power yet continually invoked by those demanding justice.”
GCHRJ is an open access journal published under the auspices of the Global Campus of Human Rights, also available on the Global Campus Open Knowledge Repository, and is supported financially by the European Union. No fees are charged for submission, article processing or publication.
The journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics relating to the fields of human rights and democratisation, but particularly welcomes contributions that speak to the Global Campus of Human Rights: Vision, Mission and Strategic Objectives 2024-2028.