Human Rights: What are the questions that really matter?
WebOct 22, 2020 · The human rights movement is needed more than ever, but it will fail humanity if it frames the world’s problems as good citizens being let down by bad governments.
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WebApril 20, 2024 Land as a lens for future-facing human rights advocacy To address the growing concentration of land ownership and resulting rights violations, advocates must work both to increase transparency and to reimagine land in terms of a common good.
From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and …
WebJun 9, 2023 · More than a mere shift from one awkward abbreviation to another, the use of SOGIESC promises a reframing of sexuality, gender, and human rights that is more accurate, more inclusive, and ultimately more universal—and therefore one that is a better tool for advancing human rights. The roots of the term LGBTQIA+ can be found in efforts …
Judges within their powers: determining the lower limit for …
WebJun 28, 2020 · This article is a part of OGR's Litigating the Climate Emergency series on how human rights and strategic litigation might best be leveraged in the climate action movements.
What a datafied worldview means for human rights
WebNov 22, 2021 · As such, datafication is a deep driver of change. One which is likely to have a structural impact on rights and governance practices. As with any process of change, the final outcome ultimately depends on the balance of power shaping it. Thus, the degree to which human rights practitioners are capable of understanding the ways in which such ...
Three challenges for the human rights movement
WebApr 8, 2021 · To confront those challenges better, three tendencies of the current human rights canon and movement need to be confronted. First, state-centrism and an inability to think creatively about non-state actors without allying with the worst repressive tendencies of states. Second, institutionalism and the lure of global institution-building rather ...
Embracing change for a better civic space | OpenGlobalRights
WebOct 13, 2021 · Embracing change for a better civic space. While civic action and space are under relentless pressure worldwide, different dimensions of a more positive future are being built and fought for across the world. The previous post set out a range of contemporary challenges facing civil society, which have rendered activism, oversight, protest, and ...
It’s about values: human rights norms and tolerance for inequality
WebDec 22, 2015 · It’s about values: human rights norms and tolerance for inequality. Using principles of non-discrimination and status equality, human rights have the potential to fill the ethical void in economics. This debate on inequality as a human rights issue has so far focused on the instrumental importance of human rights to inequality and vice versa ...
A Guide to Hope-Based Communications | OpenGlobalRights
WebFeb 19, 2019 · A Guide to Hope-based Communications. For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we need to promise a brighter future. By OGR Admin. Español ภาษาไทย.
How inequality threatens all human rights | OpenGlobalRights
WebOct 29, 2015 · Inequality is not only a threat to economic and social rights—it threatens the realization of all forms of rights everywhere. At the global level, economic crises, armed conflict, public health emergencies, food insecurity and climate change have all threatened the realization of human rights. Within this constellation of factors, the ...
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