Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine n 15 (March 2025)

Abstract

The interviews with some of the 2024 Right Livelihood Laureates covered in the 15th edition of the Global Campus Human Rights Magazine inspire us with hope and confidence to continue fighting for a better world. Spanish students of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) have contributed to this Magazine a call for accountability and the rise of community solidarity in reaction to one of the worst natural disasters in Spain, the Valencia DANA flood disaster in late October 2024. The most powerful tool to fight these alarming tendencies in corporate-state global governance is human rights education at all levels of the education system. With its focus on the rights of children and future generations and the empowerment of young change-makers, the Global Campus of Human Rights with its eight Master programmes in all world regions appears to be more important than ever as a beacon of hope. The various activities of the Global Campus, its students and graduates described in this Magazine provide ample evidence of this forward-looking spirit: The Venice Human Rights Film Festival organized by the students of the Global Campus Europe (EMA) with a focus on children’s rights during armed conflict; the contribution of graduates of the Global Campus South East Europe (ERMA) during the Council of Europe’s Conference on Digital Resilience in Montenegro with a focus on combating online hate speech; the training of Asia-Pacific human rights defenders in Timor-Leste as part of our capacity development project in enhancing Timor-Leste’s role as a leader in human rights education; the publication of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal fostering in-depth scholarship and critical discussions on the urgent challenges facing human rights and democratization today; the Global Campus Alumni Mentoring Programme, the Venice Marathon and many other activities.