From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and …
Jun 9, 2023 · The ever-expanding term LGBTQIA+ serves the worthy purpose of including a diverse array of categories and identities relating to sexuality and gender.
Yes, economic and social rights really are human rights
Aug 8, 2014 · 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 ...
Open Global Rights
November 26, 2024 Self-managed abortion: A global human rights imperative To safeguard individuals’ control over their reproductive health and protect human rights, governments must remove legal barriers that hinder access to self-managed abortion.
Human Rights: What are the questions that really matter?
Oct 22, 2020 · 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but what if the movement has lost its way and is no longer fit for purpose, not through lack of effort, but through outdated perception?
Putting to rest the Three Generations Theory of human rights
Nov 15, 2017 · The so-called “Three Generations Theory of Human Rights”—known for dividing human rights into three separate generations based on (1) civil and political rights; (2) economic, social and cultural rights; and (3) collective or solidarity rights—turns 40 this month.
The failures of the UN in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Jan 22, 2024 · On October 7, 2023, militant members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad attacked military bases and towns in southern Israel from Gaza, during which approximately 1,200 people—at least 845 of whom were civilians—were killed and over 5,000 injured. The militants also took hostage some 240 Israelis and nationals of other countries.
The right to design babies? Human rights and bioethics
Jan 8, 2019 · The gene-editing scandal that made headlines in late November, with researcher He Jiankui claiming to have created twin girls whose DNA he had altered at the embryo stage, heightened global awareness of a consequential and close-at-hand decision about how to use and regulate powerful new human biotechnologies.This controversy about whether altering the genes of future children and generations ...
Combatting modern slavery with human rights - OpenGlobalRights
Aug 14, 2018 · Increased social mobilisation around and successful framing of modern slavery since the 1990s have brought renewed and significant attention to an age-old problem: the forced and coerced use of individuals for economic gain.
What makes a human rights campaign effective? - OpenGlobalRights
Oct 26, 2017 · Disciplines from marketing to public health have long studied awareness campaigns and have much to say about differences in design and implementation strategies. However, evidence used in this research tends to come from campaigns in areas other than human rights. Academic research has not, for the most part, studied human rights awareness campaigns with the same rigour that we see in the case ...
Digital activism: empowering women, creating change and …
Sep 22, 2020 · This online revolution is part of a phenomenon referred to as networked feminism or cyber-feminism: propagating and mobilising the rights and voices of women and girls across the globe via a range of digital platforms. These activists are leveraging the digital world to capture the intersectionality, diversity, multi-lateral, and nuanced range of feminist agendas.