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The poverty trap: economic inequality as a barrier to human rights in Kyrgyzstan
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025-09-18) Tenizbaeva, Akylai
Poverty traps in Kyrgyzstan - driven by underfunded education, healthcare inequality, and informal labour – undermine human rights, especially for rural communities. This blog argues for structural reforms and equitable resource distribution to promote social justice and inclusive development.
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The ‘Union of Skills’: attracting ‘the best and the brightest’ between new strategies and hard balance with human rights
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025-09-11) Borraccetti, Marco; Veltri, Mariateresa
The new EU strategy on skills aims to attract and retain talent from third countries to fill skills gaps, support higher education and strengthen competitiveness. It is worth analysing the human rights implications, highlighting positive aspects and potential critical issues.
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A call to action: strengthening the AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025-09-04) Gai, Awa
To turn the AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls into meaningful action demands all hands on deck to dismantle violence against women and girls and amplify the voices of survivors. The current call for a structured review highlight the need for stakeholder consultation to address gaps in implementation, particularly concerning Article 14.
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Children's Rights in Digitalised Societies and Conflict Times: Perspectives from Southeast Asia and the Arab World. Policy brief
(2025) Yutthaworakool, Saittawut; Al Aydi, Ahmed
Children navigate very complicated landscapes in Southeast Asia and the Arab world, both offline and online. The presence of various conflicts and the rapid digitalisation complicates their living experiences and presents significant risks to their rights, alongside opportunities. This policy brief examines how digital technologies and armed conflicts intersect to impact children’s rights in eight countries: Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan. This report builds upon field insights, youth ideas, and a review of legal frameworks. It identifies major challenges including online sexual exploitation, cyberbullying, digital surveillance, misinformation, and recruitment into armed groups. Factors that make children especially vulnerable include: the presence of weak legal protections to enforce their rights in the digital world, digital illiteracy, and the socio-political instability. Despite international commitments like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and regional frameworks such as ASEAN’s Regional Plan of Action, and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, implementation remains fragmented and under-resourced. This is especially true in contexts of conflict. The report proposes five policy alternatives: a harmonisation between national laws and international standards, the fostering of regional cooperation through organizations such as ASEAN and the League of Arab States, making digital ecosystems more inclusive, establishing national digital emergency platforms, and creating digital learning centres in conflict zones. These recommendations aim to strengthen child-centred digital governance and empower children as rights-holders in these digitalised environments, who must be prioritized.
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Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine n 16 (August 2025)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2025) Nowak, Manfred; Guyomar, Mattias; Hintermann, Barbara; Vallejos, Soledad; Ratti, Carlo; Ienzi, Alessandro; Alurralde, Maria Eugenia; Bavčić, Ena; Farewar, Tamana; Reguig, Loubna; Vaccaro, Josephine
The bulk of this edition is again devoted to storytelling on Capstone Projects in the context of our Online Course “Authoring Justice”. In the News and Events Section, many recent projects of our Capacity Development Department relating to human rights education in Pakistan, climate justice and children’s rights education in Moldova as well as a recent initiative to develop human rights education in Belize are presented. Other recent events include our Human Rights Conversation on the importance of education and sports to embrace peace at the local and international level, our 2024 Annual Report on “Persistence of Frontline Human Rights Educators”, a Global Gathering of members of our Child Leadership Team and our Youth Advisory Group in Venice, the World Congress on Justice with Children in Madrid, co-organized this year by the Global Campus, a Hope-Based Approach to Human Rights introduced in our annual Venice School for Human Rights Defenders, the Regional Correspondents Scheme aimed at Empowering Voices of our GC Alumni, and our interaction with the 2025 Architecture Biennale “Intelligens, Natural, Artificial Collective” In the Interview Section, our Communications Department has again managed to interview a number of highly interesting people: the current President of the European Court of Human Rights, the French judge Mattias Guyomar; Barbara Hintermann is Director of Terre des Hommes (TdH) in Lausanne; Soledad Vallejos is one of the founders of the grassroots feminist movement “Ni una menos” (“not one less”) 2015 in Argentina protesting against femicides and gender-based violence; Carlo Ratti, the curator of the Biennale Architectura 2025; Alessandro Ienzi, Director of Raizes Theatre