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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.
Holly Watson
Sep 5, 202415 min read
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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Anna Shapiro
Aug 8, 20248 min read
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, 20249 min read
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, 202413 min read
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, 20247 min read
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, 202410 min read
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, 202316 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20236 min read
“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, 20238 min read
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, 202317 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 202310 min read
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, 202310 min read
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, 20239 min read
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, 20239 min read
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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