Global Campus Open Knowledge Repository
Our Open Knowledge Repository is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes all digital materials resulting from the rich and varied production of the Global Campus of Human Rights. It is an ever growing collection which aims to give visibility to our research outputs, educational content, and multimedia materials; sustain open access for knowledge transfer; and foster communication within and beyond academia.
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- The Global Campus Human Rights Journal is a peer-reviewed bi-annual publication that serves as a forum for rigorous scholarly analysis, critical commentaries, and reports on recent developments pertaining to human rights and democratisation globally.
- Publications series about various projects developed by Global Campus of Human Rights.
- A selection of the best master theses of each regional programme (annual award) as well as the full collection of all dissertations.
- This collection includes the Global Campus of Human Rights Annual Report and specific activities reporting.
- The Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine is a quarterly promotional publication on the network activities. It is published both in English and Italian.
Recent Submissions
The legal future of human rights protection issues based on human-AI relationship
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2026-09-17) Panasyuk, Sergiy
People may fear the future with AI or be happy to share our world with new technology. However, AI-human relationships involve a strong emotional connection and human interests that should be taken into account as part of protected human rights guarantees.
Addressing Legal Contradictions and Rights Gaps in the Governance of Sex Work in Bangladesh. Policy Brief
(Global Campus Alumni, 2026) Hasan, Mahmudul; Dempsey, Aoife
This policy brief examines the fragmented and quasi-legal framework governing sex work in Bangladesh, where constitutional rights, criminal and administrative provisions, judicial recognition and policing practices operate according to different and sometimes contradictory logics. While sex work is not directly criminalised as an occupation, sex workers remain subject to indirect regulation through provisions relating to solicitation, public nuisance, trafficking, vagrancy and other forms of discretionary enforcement.
The brief highlights the resulting gap between formal rights and lived realities, including legal uncertainty, exposure to arbitrary enforcement, reduced access to justice, and social and economic exclusion. It also considers the limited practical effect of judicial recognition of sex work as a lawful occupation in the absence of comprehensive legislative reform. Drawing on the findings of the related research, the brief proposes recommendations for Parliament and lawmakers, the judiciary, law enforcement agencies, and human rights and oversight institutions, with particular emphasis on distinguishing consensual adult sex work from trafficking and exploitation and strengthening safeguards against arbitrary enforcement.
The policy brief was produced within the framework of the Global Campus Alumni Cross-Regional Projects 2025–2026, in partnership with Right Livelihood.
Constitutional Contradictions and Quasi-Legal Governance: Sex Work in Bangladesh Through a Feminist Legal Lens
(Global Campus Alumni, 2026) Dempsey, Aoife; Hasan, Mahmudul
This academic article examines the governance of sex work in Bangladesh through the combined lenses of feminist legal theory, constitutional and statutory law, and the lived experiences of sex workers. It explores the tensions between abolitionist and decriminalisation perspectives and considers how these competing approaches interact with a legal framework in which sex work is neither fully criminalised nor fully recognised. The article argues that constitutional contradictions, fragmented statutory regulation, judicial recognition and discretionary enforcement together produce a system of quasi-legal governance.
Drawing on documentary and legal analysis alongside qualitative interviews with sex workers, feminist activists, academics, legal professionals, law enforcement representatives and other relevant stakeholders, the research examines how this regulatory ambiguity operates in practice. It highlights differences between brothel-based, street-based or “floating”, home- and hotel-based, and other forms of sex work, and explores the roles of economic necessity, constrained choice, policing, administrative categorisation, stigma and social exclusion. The article argues that neither abolitionist nor decriminalisation frameworks alone fully capture the hybrid and contradictory realities of sex-work governance in Bangladesh, and identifies a persistent gap between formal rights and their practical realisation.
The article is accompanied by The Legal Regulation of Sex Work in Bangladesh: A Reference Manual, which provides a practical reference to the constitutional provisions, legislation, judicial decisions, administrative practices and enforcement mechanisms that shape the legal regulation of sex work in Bangladesh.
The research was produced within the framework of the Global Campus Alumni Cross-Regional Projects 2025–2026, in partnership with Right Livelihood.
La Burocracia del Terror: Lo que revelan los documentos notariales sobre las adopciones internacionales en Guatemala. Research Brief
(Global Campus Alumni, 2026) Margos, Juan José
This research brief (in Spanish) examines the origins and development of international adoptions in Guatemala, focusing on evidence found in notarial records. Through an archival review of legal, judicial and notarial documentation, the study identifies new evidence on the chronology of international adoptions, the actors and institutions involved, the mechanisms through which adoptions were processed, and the economic relationships surrounding these practices.
The research finds that notarial records reveal a broader documentary universe than previously identified through state administrative records, including adoption-related documents from 1979 and 1980. It also identifies different forms of participation by private organisations and individuals, as well as contractual and patrimonial relationships requiring further investigation.
The study situates these findings within Guatemala’s history of internal armed conflict and serious human rights violations and highlights the relevance of archival research to processes of truth, justice, memory and reparation. It provides new evidence and research questions for further academic and case-based investigation.
The research was produced within the framework of the Global Campus Alumni Cross-Regional Projects 2025–2026, in partnership with Right Livelihood.
Croatia: The ‘Thompson Effect’ and the rise of neo-nationalism
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2026-09-10) Matović, Marko
Marko Perkovic Thompson's concerts show how popular culture can celebrate nationalism in a familiar and emotionally comfortable way. However, can democratic countries respect artistic freedom but also protect the dignity and rights of those excluded by normalisation of such ideas?