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Climate Justice and Human Rights, in a World in Climate Emergency
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)Climate justice is the blueprint for a fair and sustainable future of life on this planet. Climate justice can be understood as a lens for looking at climate change as a social, ethical and legal issue, rather than solely ... -
Environment and Human Rights in Curriculum: Towards a Strong and Uniform Education Policy in South Asia
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)This policy paper aims to summarise the existing education policy with respect to the environment and human rights in the countries in South Asia as well as address gaps and challenges. While there is an emphasis on human ... -
‘Burned by the Sun, Drowned by the Rain’: Enhancing Children’s Legal Protection Against Climate Change
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The objective of this policy brief is to make a case for addressing the pressing issue of child environmental rights in international law. There are 2.2 billion children on this planet, 90 per cent of whom are living in ... -
Climate Change and the Future Generation under the African Human Rights System: Fostering Pathways and Partnerships
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The objective of this policy brief is to argue the conceptual and legal bases for the protection of the rights of future generations in the context of adverse effects of climate change and articulate the potential pathways ... -
Planet over Profit? A Reality Check of Europe’s Aspirational Climate Policies
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The European Green Deal (EGD) aspires to become the transformational agenda putting the European Union’s (EU’s) economies and societies firmly on the path towards sustainability. This paper casts in doubt several presumptions ... -
Ecosystem Restoration as a Successful Way for Fighting Global Climate Changes
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The world’s ecosystem has been affected throughout the ages by human development which has led to climate change throughout the whole globe. Global warming is causing not only warmer water temperatures but it is also raising ... -
Youth Activism and Climate Change in Latin America: Indigenous and Peasant Youth in Defence of their Human Rights and Territories
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The objective of this policy brief is to generate public policy recommendations on the role of indigenous and peasant youth in the defence of their human rights, their territories and the actions they are carrying out to ... -
Global Campus Human Rights Journal, Volume 4 No 2
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)This volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal consists of three parts. The first part is a ‘Special focus: Selected developments in the area of children’s rights’. This is the second occasion on which the Journal ... -
Editorial
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)This volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal consists of three parts. The first part is a ‘Special focus: Selected developments in the area of children’s rights’. This is the second occasion on which the Journal ... -
Editorial of special focus: Selected developments in the area of children deprived of liberty
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty (2019) unequivocally regards the detention of children as a form of structural violence. It not only leaves children stigmatised and marginalised for life, but also ... -
Two sides of the same coin: Contradictory legal and administrative practices towards children in immigration detention centres in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The scale of migration among Asian countries has increased over the decades. Children are also part of this migratory flow as they travel either alone or with their parents. Since much of the migration occurs ... -
Armed conflict and national security depriving children of liberty in the MENA region: Case studies and good practices
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty outlines various pathways to detention in the contexts of armed conflicts and national security. A particular focus of this article falls on a comparative study ... -
Migrant children and adolescents from North Central America towards Mexico and their deprivation of liberty
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)A growing number of migrant children and adolescents, mainly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, embark on a perilous journey to Mexico. This article intends to provide detailed information on and an analysis of ... -
Deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities: Process, progress and challenges in South-East Europe
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)More than a decade since Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Serbia made a commitment to gradually close their institutions for children with disabilities, the process of exchanging institutional with family-based ... -
Migration related detention of children in Southern Africa: Developments in Angola, Malawi and South Africa
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)This article examines the laws and practices in Angola, Malawi and South Africa regarding the migration-related detention of children in light of international human rights standards. Detaining a migrant child is in ... -
Children’s deprivation of liberty as a tool of immigration and national security control in Europe? Unlocking captured childhoods by means of child-centred strategies and non-custodial solutions
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)This article explores children’s detention on immigration or national security grounds as affected by European states’ contemporary security rationale neglecting children’s rights. Attention is given to how non-custodi ... -
Overview of measures applied to children in conflict with law in post-Soviet countries: non-custodial measures and diversion programmes
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)This article seeks to identify where non-custodial measures are applied in the post-Soviet space and where, in particular, diversion is used as a non-custodial measure in child justice systems. To this end, the article ... -
The 17 October 2019 protests in Lebanon: Perceptions of Lebanese and non-Lebanese residents of Tripoli and surroundings
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Starting from 17 October 2019, Lebanon had witnessed an unprecedented wave of mass protests and mobilisation across its territory. This so-called Thawra came to question the state’s social contract, which is built on a ... -
Recent regional developments in human rights and democratisation in South-East Europe during 2019
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The region of South-East Europe (SEE) continues to be marked by competitive authoritarian regimes. This article employs a dynamic understanding of competitive authoritarianism that places the emphasis on a movement of ... -
Human rights and democratisation during 2019: The case of Armenia, Georgia and Moldova
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The three countries discussed in the article, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Moldova, have all witnessed developments and experienced weaknesses as far as human rights and democracy ...
