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November 19, 2024 What the work of motherhood reveals about human rights work To grapple with the contradictions in the human rights movement in a way that nourishes vulnerability and creativity, start by democratizing human rights institutions.
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July 27, 2020 真实的人权基础发展工作方法以应对后疫情时期的未来 前言:当许多政府仍然愿意以弱势者的性命换取最富裕者的经济成长时，我们需要以人权为基础的发展工作方法来对应后疫情时期的世界。
War, Conflict, and Human Rights | OpenGlobalRights
In January 2024, the United Nations reported the highest number of violent conflicts currently underway since World War II. Many of the most dire human rights violations — including rape as a weapon of war, recruitment of children to serve on the frontlines, and direct attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure — take place during war.
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Our goal is to promote exchange about and throughout the human rights ecosystem. We believe that human rights works best when its many actors converse, learn, and innovate across geographic, linguistic, and disciplinary lines.
From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and …
2023年6月9日 · The ever-expanding term LGBTQIA+ serves the worthy purpose of including a diverse array of categories and identities relating to sexuality and gender.
A new human rights education program to promote civic …
2024年9月30日 · Human rights education provides the foundation to advocate for human rights and promote positive social change. The concept of human rights education (HRE) dates back at least as far as the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948.
In a world of calamity, are human rights still relevant?
2024年10月24日 · Amid ongoing acts of genocide against Palestinians and international attacks, the rights community must examine how rights frameworks and institutions have helped Israel perpetuate colonization, violence, and oppression. In the past year, Israel has escalated its genocidal aggression, expediting its ...
The future of human rights - OpenGlobalRights
Perhaps there has never been so much debate about the future of human rights. As I’ve explained elsewhere on OpenGlobalRights (OGR), the reason for this is that the movement is in a moment of uncertainty and transition (not “crisis” or “endtimes”), given rapid and simultaneous changes in context and strategies for doing human rights work.
Yes, economic and social rights really are human rights
2014年8月8日 · Earlier on openGlobalRights, Pedro Pizano argued that socio-economic rights are not really human rights at all, because they are not immediately enforceable in a court of law. Civil and political rights, by contrast, are human rights, because they can be immediately and judicially enforced. This argument is similar to that voiced earlier on openGlobalRights by Aryeh Neier, founder of Human ...
Human Rights: What are the questions that really matter?
2020年10月22日 · There is reason to believe that the human rights movement is needed more than ever, but what if the movement has lost its way and is no longer fit for purpose, not through lack of effort, but through outdated perception?