Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) have emerged as a single cathegory that includes all those who defend and promote human rights and other universally recognized rights and freedoms. The United Nations Declaration on Human ...

International corporations have become as powerful as many states around the world, but they often remain detached from respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights. In this thesis, engagement of a broader range of ...

It has now been over ten years since the Global Compact and the investigative beam of human rights analysis has focused on business. Great advances have been seen in the concept now known as Corporate Social Responsibility ...

The global focus on recruitment and use of child soldiers is dominated by a highly normative, rather than evidence-based, rhetoric advocating for the vulnerable and traumatized child victim. Against the Western conceptualisation ...

Direct Provision is a scheme in Ireland in which asylum seekers are accommodated in reception centres while awaiting determination of their refugee status. Over one third of such asylum-seekers are children, many of whom ...

This paper analyses how “happiness” can prove useful in providing solutions to resiliency, post-traumatic recovery, and access to a broader range of human rights. It argues for the importance of a paradigm shift away from ...

Prison abolition is an imaginative and psycho-social ideology, an emerging social movement with traceable historical roots and promising futures. It retains its fluidity as it unfolds, responding to the ebbs and flows of ...