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Understanding the Non-Return of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon. Evidence from Central Bekaa and Greater Beirut
(2026) [...]; Global Campus Arab World
This report examines the determinants of non-return among Syrian refugees in Lebanon a year after the regime change in Syria. The study analyses how demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, political and other structural factors shape refugees’ aspirations and capabilities to return to Syria. The research is based on mixed-method fieldwork conducted in Greater Beirut and Central Bekaa in January 2026, including 537 surveys and 25 key informant interviews. Findings indicate that a majority of Syrian refugee respondents did not intend to return to Syria at the time of the study. While security concerns remain an important determinant of return, they do not alone explain continued displacement. Rather, return perceptions are shaped by the interaction of multiple determinants operating in both Syria and Lebanon. Strong determinants include gender, parental status, perceived security risks, place of residence, relationships with host communities, confidence in Syria’s transitional authorities, expected access to basic services and sectarian affiliations. Economic conditions, employment, education, housing, income and documentation-related factors influence return in more differentiated ways, sometimes shaping refugees’ capabilities rather than their aspirations alone. The findings further reveal increasingly blurred boundaries between voluntary and indirectly pressured return amid growing precarity in Lebanon. Overall, the study demonstrates that return cannot be understood through security or political change alone. Sustainable return policies require multidimensional approaches that address the diverse determinants shaping refugees’ aspirations and capabilities, while placing refugee perspectives, experiences, and priorities at the centre of return programming.
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Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine n 18 (June 2026)
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2026) Tang, Audrey; Justice for Myanmar; Emergency Response Rooms; Aguon, Julian
The eighteen Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine is dedicated to our partnership with Right Livelihood that for over 40 years had supported and honoured individuals and initiatives worldwide working on practical solutions to human rights, environmental and social justice challenges through the well-known Right Livelihood Award or alternative Nobel peace prizes. Our work together connects academic knowledge with lived experiences and creates meaningful social change. The interviews with some of the 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates covered in the 18th edition of the Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine inspire us with hope and confidence to continue building a better world.
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A neurocognitive-based method for elaborating child-accessible judicial rulings: the didactic preface
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2026-05-28) Griesbach, Margarita
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
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2026-05-21) Krasteva, Anna
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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The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children’s Right to Development under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Tajikistan Case Study
(2026) Shodibekova, Shamsiya
Domestic violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations worldwide, with consequences that extend beyond the immediate victim. Children who witness such violence often experience profound developmental harm; however, in Tajikistan and across Central Asia this form of indirect victimhood remains largely invisible in law, policy, and research. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) guarantees every child’s right to holistic development, children exposed to domestic violence in Tajikistan are rarely treated as independent rights-holders, creating significant gaps in protection and early intervention. The aim of this study is to assess how domestic violence against women affects children’s right to development in Tajikistan and to evaluate the adequacy of existing legal and institutional responses under the CRC. This thesis examines how professionals in Tajikistan respond to the developmental consequences of domestic violence on children. Using a qualitative-dominant mixed methods design, the study combines interviews with professionals and comparative legal and policy analysis. The CRC and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory provide the theoretical foundation, enabling analysis that bridges children’s rights law with developmental psychology. All interviews followed ethical research standards. By situating Tajikistan as the primary case study, the research explores four interrelated dimensions: (1) the psychological and social consequences of witnessing violence for children; (2) the adequacy of existing legal and institutional responses; and (3) the effectiveness of preventive measures, including family centered and school based interventions, public advocacy and independent fact-finding mechanisms; and (4) the extent to which children’s voices and best interests are meaningfully reflected in protection systems. Selected comparative references such as Spain’s recognition of “vicarious violence” and regional practices in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan contextualize the findings. The research finds that children exposed to domestic violence face cumulative and multidimensional developmental risks, while protection mechanisms in Tajikistan remain fragmented, under resourced, and inconsistently implemented. Weak inter-institutional coordination, limited professional capacity, insufficient child referral pathways, and restricted access to international accountability procedures continue to undermine effective prevention and protection. Academically, it contributes to the limited literature on children’s indirect victimhood in post-Soviet contexts, through a rights-based and interdisciplinary approach. Practically, it evaluates alignment with CRC obligations, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4,5, and 16, and proposes pathways to strengthen child centered, trauma informed protection systems.