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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
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.
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, Tamara; 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
Authoring Justice 2025. Report
(2025) E-learning Department
From 12 May to 20 July 2025 the Global Campus of Human Rights ran the second edition of its online course called "Authoring Justice". The course focused on how to write powerful narrative nonfiction works about human rights and social justice issues – using storytelling to touch the hearts and minds of readers and affect change around the world. The second iteration included lessons from award-winning authors, activists and publishers, including Professor Andrew Leon Hanna (the main lecturer), Kao Kalia Yang, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Shahram Khosravi, Jemma Neville, Casey Gerald, and Joel Rickett.
The cohort of students included human rights experts, journalists, climate activists, professors, and researchers from across the globe with a wide range of focus areas – from migration to racial justice, from youth-led social movements to climate advocacy and beyond. The following pages feature a few selected examples of the students' "Capstone Projects," which were designed to be either standalone long-form works or components of books they are now beginning to write.
Authoring Justice: Capstone Projects Collection 2025
(2025) [...]
From 12 May to 20 July 2025 the Global Campus of Human Rights ran the second edition of its online course called "Authoring Justice". The course focused on how to write powerful narrative nonfiction works about human rights and social justice issues – using storytelling to touch the hearts and minds of readers and affect change around the world. The second iteration included lessons from award-winning authors, activists and publishers, including Professor Andrew Leon Hanna (the main lecturer), Kao Kalia Yang, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Shahram Khosravi, Jemma Neville, Casey Gerald, and Joel Rickett.
The cohort of students included human rights experts, journalists, climate activists, professors, and researchers from across the globe with a wide range of focus areas – from migration to racial justice, from youth-led social movements to climate advocacy and beyond. The following pages feature a few selected examples of the students' "Capstone Projects," which were designed to be either standalone long-form works or components of books they are now beginning to write.
Authoring Justice. Rooted identity: three generations of women across Europe and Latin America
(2025) Alurralde, Maria Eugenia
From 12 May to 20 July 2025 the Global Campus of Human Rights ran the second edition of its online course called "Authoring Justice". The course focused on how to write powerful narrative nonfiction works about human rights and social justice issues – using storytelling to touch the hearts and minds of readers and affect change around the world. The second iteration included lessons from award-winning authors, activists and publishers, including Professor Andrew Leon Hanna (the main lecturer), Kao Kalia Yang, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Shahram Khosravi, Jemma Neville, Casey Gerald, and Joel Rickett. The cohort of students included human rights experts, journalists, climate activists, professors, and researchers from across the globe with a wide range of focus areas – from migration to racial justice, from youth-led social movements to climate advocacy and beyond. The following pages feature a few selected examples of the students' "Capstone Projects," which were designed to be either standalone long-form works or components of books they are now beginning to write. This Capstone Project excerpt contains 'Rooted identity: three generations of women across Europe and Latin America' by Maria Eugenia Alurralde