The United Kingdom Is Failing Vulnerable Migrant Women, What Can Be Done?
Image by William Hammon via Creative Commons Female migrants are some of the most vulnerable people within the United Kingdom today and...
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DIGITAL GLOBAL RIGHTS JOURNAL
The Digital Global Rights Journal is FGHR’s leading publication on human rights issues, policies, and practices around the world. Articles are produced by our team of capable and creative writers, and edited by experienced and supportive editors prior to publication. The Digital Global Rights Journal creates a space for the expression of novel and innovative perspectives and insights on contemporary human rights questions.
Anna Shapiro
- Aug 8
- 8 min
Still born
image via wiki commons Introduction Published in 2020, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel Still Born explores the complexities of...
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Hannah Shaw
- Aug 3
- 9 min
Images of suffering and human rights
Cameras hanging from a tree in Khe Sanh During the Vietnam War, 7th April 1968. [Creative Commons License] Human rights and photography...
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Anna Shapiro
- Jun 29
- 13 min
Introducing Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and African epistemology: incorporating Black Thought to re-examine the case of Bobby Seale
(Bobby Seale during court proceedings via Wikimedia Commons) Article Summary Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Zimbabwean scholar and...
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Hannah Piller
- Feb 16
- 7 min
Hotels as Homes: The Inappropriate Accommodation for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images On the 24th of January 2023, Caroline Lucas (Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion) addressed the Speaker...
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Fiza Faheem
- Feb 1
- 10 min
Understanding enforced disappearance: Exploring the case of Velásquez Rodríguez v Honduras.
Graphic designed by Fiza Faheem Enforced disappearance refers to the covert removal of an individual from society, either by State...
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Darío Karim Pomar Azar
- Dec 14, 2023
- 16 min
Pro-Palestine Activism and Critical Issues in Contemporary Policing
Editor’s Note: This article was written and edited before Israel began its genocidal onslaught on Gaza in October 2023. However, its...
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Narek Nahapetyan
- Dec 5, 2023
- 5 min
Can Twitter/X continue to be a safe haven for us?
Look up. The birds are flitting in the skies. It feels like freedom, right? One often associates the notion of freedom with these avians,...
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Catalina Rincon
- Nov 23, 2023
- 6 min
“Las Madres y las Abuelas” Have Not Forgotten: The Dictatorship Period of Argentina
Photo by Matias Jacobi on Unsplash For the past four decades, Las madres y las abuelas (“the mothers and grandmothers'') have marched...
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Asheema Kour
- Nov 1, 2023
- 8 min
The Veiled Woman: A Perspective on S.A.S. V France
Credit: Unsplash by Hasan Almasi One of the fundamental complexities of the veil is summarised by Amina Wadud as such: “The hijab of...
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Georgia Bentley
- Sep 24, 2023
- 17 min
Why Conversations Around Immigration Need to Change
When the Office for National Statistics revealed that net migration to the UK was at 606,000 for 2022 - an increase of 118,000 from 2021...
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Asia Bertuccioli
- Sep 11, 2023
- 4 min
Echoes of Colonialism: A Willful Amnesia in International Relations
[1] The phrase “never forget” has been used frequently following tragic historical events worldwide. While it is meant to inform future...
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Catalina Rincon
- Sep 8, 2023
- 7 min
Violence Against Women in Peru: A Broken Society, and an Even More Broken Justice System
In the first week of 2023, seven women were murdered in Peru.[1] To some, this news would be shocking; but in Peruvian society, it is an...
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Hannah Shaw
- Jul 27, 2023
- 7 min
Private Security in South Africa and its Challenges for Human Rights
[1] Where formal state institutions have failed to protect citizens, those who can afford it have turned to private security. In South...
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Narek Nahapetyan
- Jul 25, 2023
- 5 min
Has the West failed to appropriately condemn Christian persecution in the MENA countries?
The Christian persecution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) dates back to the very origins of this Abrahamic religion. From the...
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Nasreen Basheer
- Jul 25, 2023
- 6 min
Review – ‘Tomb of Sand’
Geetanjali Shree’s International Booker winner, marvelously translated by Daisy Rockwell from its original Hindi version ‘Ret Samadhi’,...
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Molly Raffoni
- Jul 13, 2023
- 10 min
The Regulation of Human Shields Within Armed Conflict: The Influence of Colonial History
The accusation of using ‘human shields’ is increasingly weaponized within the landscape of armed conflict. The United States accused the...
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Hannah Piller
- Jul 10, 2023
- 10 min
Trophy Hunting and Indigenous Rights: Is Western legislation Silencing African voices?
Trophy hunting, a sport where animals are killed in a hunt and part of the body are kept as a trophy, has increasingly been debated in...
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Georgia Bentley
- Jul 6, 2023
- 9 min
Book Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent is the second book by Isabel Wilkerson, the first woman of African-American heritage to win the...
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Toby Gay
- Jun 27, 2023
- 9 min
Carbon Crimes and Carbon Victims
The recent failure of the “Berlin 2030” referendum highlights the recurring failure of environmental groups to mobilise the support of...
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