General Comment 37: The final word on the right of peaceful assembly?
By Laura Kauer García Laura Kauer García is a human rights professional, writer, and translator. Previously, she worked for the new initiative Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) of PEN America, providing urgent support to threatened artists, and worked at Human Rights...
Facing the Coronavirus: The Iniquitous Position of Indigenous Peoples and Minorities
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the world it is becoming evident that Indigenous peoples and minorities are facing ever more violations of their rights to health, to food, to work, of their right to land and territories, of their right to be treated equally...
ACTSA: Solidarity with the People of Southern Africa in the 21st Century
*By Sunit Bagree Introduction Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) was established in 1994 as the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement. ACTSA supports the people of Southern Africa to achieve a region free of poverty, based on human rights and equality...
Reflections on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Sonya Rahaman in conversation with Dr Julian Burger
On the tenth anniversary of the historic passing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007, Dr. Julian Burger, the former Head of the United Nations Programme for Indigenous Peoples at...
Satellite Imagery for Human Rights Monitoring
Satellite images are photographs of the earth captured by satellites orbiting the planet. Satellites that are equipped to take pictures do so by capturing light reflecting back from the earth. When that light data is digitised, it can be processed into an image....
UK under review at the 27th session of UPR
The 36th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) is scheduled to take place from 11-29 September 2017, during which the Working Group (WG) Reports from the 27th session of the UPR will be adopted. The UK will appear before the UN Human Rights Council on the 22 Sept...
Brazil court favours indigenous groups in land dispute
Brazilian indigenous activists celebrated on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled against a state seeking compensation for land that had been declared tribal reserves. The ruling against Mato Grosso state in western Brazil was seen as a victory for indigenous...
Historic judgment from the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in favour of the Kenya’s Ogiek community
Following an eight-year legal battle, the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in Arusha found that the Kenyan government violated seven separate articles of the African Charter in a land rights case that dates back to colonial times. Lucy Claridge MRG’s Legal...
Peace Human Rights Governance: new scientific journal of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova
Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG), the new scientific journal of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova, is out with its first issue, which prosecutes the ten-year experience developed by the Padova Centre through the review Pace Diritti Umani – Peace...
AJHR announces new publishing partnership with Taylor & Francis
The Australian Journal of Human Rights (AJHR) has entered into a new publishing partnership with Taylor & Francis as of 1st January 2017. Justine Nolan, an Executive Editor of the AJHR, stated that ‘this partnership is the perfect opportunity to broaden the reach...