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
Fleeing Sri Lanka’s Economic Emergency
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2022-07-21) Annamalai, Visalaakshi
Sri Lanka’s financial crisis, fuelled by government mismanagement and mounting foreign debt, has led to spiralling costs, drastic shortages and violent protests, with citizens fleeing to nearby India. The international community must act to protect rights of economic refugees.
Human Rights Education: A way of overcoming division?
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2022-07-28) Funa, Ana
As Nelson Mandela said: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’. Reshaping the Balkans’ partitioned schools to focus on inclusion and human rights could help challenge societal divisions and prejudices.
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?
“Mwana wa Mzungu, Mwana wa Mu-China?” Assessing the Impact of Foreign-Funded Business Enterprises on the Rights of Children in Uganda. The case of Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve
(Global Campus Alumni, 2026) Taremwa, Kansiime Mukama
This baseline assessment examines the impact of foreign-funded and foreign-affiliated business enterprises on the rights and welfare of children in Uganda, using the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP), Namanve as a case study. It addresses an important evidence gap: while foreign investment and industrialisation are commonly assessed in terms of economic growth, employment and infrastructure, their child-specific impacts remain under-documented and discussion of children and business is often confined to child labour.
Combining legal and policy review, thematic analysis, field observation and limited primary data collection, the study considers children as independent rights-holders and examines five areas in particular: the best interests of the child; the right to health; the right to education; the right to participation; and the right to a clean and healthy environment. It identifies gaps in the integration of children’s rights into investment governance and highlights concerns relating to access to health and education, environmental pollution and safety, and the limited participation of children and affected communities in decisions concerning industrial development.
The assessment concludes that foreign investment and industrialisation should be evaluated not only through economic indicators but also according to their effects on children living in the communities most directly affected. It proposes measures for more child-sensitive investment governance, including child-rights impact assessments, stronger environmental and social safeguards, meaningful community and child participation, improved support for health and education, child-sensitive grievance and remedy mechanisms, and stronger monitoring.
The research was produced within the framework of the Global Campus Alumni Cross-Regional Projects 2025–2026, in partnership with Right Livelihood.