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WEBHow corporate accountability is reshaping the practice of transitional justice. Victims of human rights abuses and their advocates are using innovative legal methods to hold economic actors accountable for their role in rights violations. By Gabriel Pereira & Leigh Payne & Laura Bernal Bermúdez. Español.
From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and …
WEBJun 9, 2023 · The LGBTQIA+ abbreviation reflects that laudable commitment to diversity and inclusion, and it still has a role to play. But for human rights advocacy, policy, and law, SOGIESC offers a valuable option that provides accuracy, inclusion, and a focus on universally shared traits. Raymond A. Smith, PhD, LLM, is …
The forgotten advocates of children's rights in Guatemala
WEBSep 1, 2017 · Español. On March 8, 2017, an especially meaningful day of celebration of the International Women’s Day, organizations supporting children’s rights in Guatemala were hit by brutal news: 41 girls and adolescents who were sent by court order to a youth shelter for their protection, died there in a horrific fire. Five public servants were ...
So much about your sustainability, my people are dying
WEBNov 24, 2022 · Ayisha Siddiqa — human rights and land defender and Fellow at NYU Law's Climate Litigation Accelerator — offered a powerful commentary at the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.. She spoke about the urgent need for climate justice and for world leaders to do much more to protect the lives and wellbeing of ...
Human rights victims’ complaints to UN not treated effectively
WEBMar 20, 2020 · Provide basic and essential knowledge for victims of human rights violations to effectively access the complaint mechanisms before the UN human rights treaty bodies; Better communicate with complainants during the examination of the complaint; Improve the coherence, transparency and quality of decision-making on individual communications;
Movement Building | OpenGlobalRights
WEBJun 24, 2024 · Movement Building. Hans-Peter Gauster/Unsplash. Human rights work involves an entire ecosystem of actors, from lawyers and activists to business people and politicians. But many questions remain unanswered about how to most effectively engage with new actors and new issues. What risks and …
Putting to rest the Three Generations Theory of human rights
WEBNov 15, 2017 · Vasak modified the theory by linking the three generations to the French Revolution’s three concepts of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité, thus backdating it another 150 years. The theory appears to have supported two political dynamics. It promoted the third generation “collective” rights agenda pushed by a number of UN member states to ...
Educating the next generation of human rights practitioners
WEBSep 1, 2020 · Human rights practitioners need to acquire technology-based skills and tools to promote advocacy, funding, investigation and prevention, and to contribute to regulatory and governance decision-making on the role of technology, technology businesses and labor in society. Finally, power and privilege have shaped the …
COVID-19 exposes why access to the internet is a human right
WEBMay 26, 2020 · COVID-19 is truly exposing this as a limited approach by the UN towards internet access as a right. Overwhelmingly, studies around the world show that internet access is now vital for access to jobs, to education, for improving worker rights, and to ensure freedom of expression and access to information.
Critical legal empowerment for human rights - OpenGlobalRights
WEBMay 27, 2021 · A deep change in approach is needed to alter the basic conditions of those who experience persistent human rights violations. Legal empowerment—led by the grassroots, with lawyers and other professionals in supporting, rather than leading roles—is a crucial part of the justice transformation that is needed.. When rights-holders directly engage institutions affecting their lives, they ...
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