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
A Toolkit for Parents, Professionals and Decision-Makers. Early identification and support for children with disabilities
(2025) Grobovic, Elmedina; Perisic, Katarina
This toolkit, authored by Elmedina Grobovic and Katarina Perisic with peer review and expert contribution from Yetnebersh Nigussie Molla (disability rights advocate and 2017 Right Livelihood Laureate), focuses on early identification, intervention, and educational rights for children with developmental delays and disabilities. Developed within the Global Campus Alumni 2024-25 Projects scheme in partnership with Right Livelihood, it addresses urgent needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia while drawing on international best practices for adaptable, inclusive, rights-based approaches across global contexts. It provides practical information on recognizing signs of developmental delays, steps after initial concerns, support institutions and services, home strategies for parents, and strengthening early intervention systems including referral pathways. The goal is to ensure every child receives timely, appropriate, high-quality support from the earliest life stages, building a more inclusive society.
A Rights-Based Approach to Digital Safety & Online Conduct for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. Training material
(2025) Rahman, Md Rezaur; Mayet, Shabnam Ebrahim
This training material addresses the digital rights and safety challenges faced by Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, where people lack the protection and digital experience for protecting themselves online. Highlighting vulnerabilities such as surveillance, exploitation, and misinformation—particularly affecting community journalists, human rights defenders, and youth—the report notes a rise in mobile phone use and information access. However, it identifies persistent gaps, including unequal access for women and limited communication with aid agencies. This training material comes as part of alumni-led activities that focused on day-long workshops across 32 Rohingya camps. The program aimed to equip 100 participants with skills to navigate digital spaces safely, emphasizing privacy, security, and self-representation. This effort calls for recognizing Rohingya refugees as rights-holders in the digital age, advocating for policy changes to ensure their inclusion and protection.
Speaking Truth to Power: A Testimony-Based Solidarity Toolkit on Palestine
(2025) Lappe, Kialoha; Wangle, Kai; Eideh, Areen
Developed by the ArMa Alumni Network through the Palestine Dialogues: Testimonials of a Genocide and Advocacy Workshop series, this toolkit supports rights-based solidarity with Palestinians enduring colonial occupation and genocide. Rooted in survivor testimonies, it includes selected quotes from witnesses like Zainab and Reema (emphasizing sumud amidst displacement, loss, and exile), Hassan (on daily fear for family survival), Ahmad (rejecting dehumanization as numbers), and Bisan (on constant bombing and grief); session summaries; advocacy directories; curated films, interviews, and media; media literacy resources; and guides countering anti-Palestinian racism, bias, and erasure. As a living document, it empowers educators, activists, researchers, and students for informed action, affirming solidarity in the global fight for dignity, justice, and liberation. Produced by Global Campus Alumni in cross-regional activities.
Climate Displacement and Human Rights in Southern Kyrgyzstan
(2025) Bekturova, Uulzhan; Chowdhury, Shobhajit; Okiring, Roland
This field-based study offers a rights-based assessment of the 2024 floods in Osh oblast, with field research in Nookat and Kara-Suu districts (Kyrgyzstan) across five rural villages: Kok Zhar, Gulistan, Mady Kyrgyz-Chek, Datka, and Bash Bulak. Based on interviews, observational data, and Ministry of Emergency Situations statistics (339 flood/mudflow events in 2024, 91 in Osh), it documents violations of rights to housing, water, health, mental well-being, and participation—including inadequate compensation, disrupted potable water, widespread psychosocial trauma, debris-blocked mobility, and exclusion of marginalized groups like children, elderly, and farmers from disaster preparedness and response processes. As Central Asia's third most climate-vulnerable country, facing a temperature rise from 4.8°C to 6°C over two decades, intensified glacier melt, extreme precipitation, and hazards costing 0.5-1.3% of GDP annually (World Bank, 2023), the analysis integrates ICESCR, ICCPR, and CRC obligations. It proposes policy recommendations for participatory, child-sensitive, rights-based disaster planning, enhanced early warnings, inclusive recovery, and regional cooperation to build resilience against floods, mudflows, landslides, and GLOFs.
Children on the Frontline: An Analysis of Climate Change and its Impact on Children in Disaster-Prone Sirajganj in Bangladesh
(2025) Chowdhury, Shobhajit; Okiring, Roland; Bekturova, Uulzhan
This research report examines the disproportionate impact of climate change on children in Sirajganj, Bangladesh. Through field research, it highlights how river erosion, flooding, and extreme weather disrupt education, force child labor, and threaten health and safety. The study identifies gaps in disaster preparedness, inadequate infrastructure, and limited access to psychosocial support, emphasizing the need for child-centered policies. It calls for strengthened early warning systems, inclusive recovery efforts, and community empowerment to protect children’s rights in climate-vulnerable regions. The research is guided by Dr. Mst Umme Habiba Fahmina Karim and led by Shobhajit Chowdhury, Ronald Okiring, and Uulzhan Bekturova.