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By: Esha Bhandari
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Any attempts to regulate the content produced by generative AI run the risk of restricting protected expression.

By: Matt Bartlett
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Any legal framework aiming to corral generative AI systems, including frameworks grounded on protecting human rights, will need to reckon with technological nuances.

By: Sean Rehaag
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AI does have the capacity to be used to help asylum seekers and other people on the move, despite its current uses.

By: Ilia Savelev
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The risks of AI-powered oppression of sexual and gender diversity are already here.

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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This new series examines the potential effects of AI in the human rights field.

By: Koldo Casla
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It is now more urgent than ever to redefine the contours of property and its social function in light of economic and social rights.

By: Paula Alejandra Camargo Páez
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The uneven effects of climate change can be traced back to colonial legacies that still linger in mitigation and adaptation actions.

By: Satang Nabaneh & Shelley Inglis & Lee Waldorf
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Many constitutions contain what are known as “clawback clauses,” which exempt personal law from their guarantees of nondiscrimination.

By: Henryk Szadziewski
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As of March 2023, delays in most Uyghur cases across the asylum system are due to court date scheduling.

By: Benjamin Davis
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The West ultimately needs to be more reflective about how we live our lives in a very ordinary, everyday sense.

By: A. Kayum Ahmed
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The possibility of multiplanetary existence raises fascinating questions about the universality of the human rights framework.

By: Başak Çalı & Esra Demir-Gürsel
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Turkey shares important similarities with global trends with respect to human rights appropriation practices at the expense of women’s and LGBTQI+ rights.

By: Farrah Ahmed
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The Indian government uses strategies to disguise its authoritarian nationalist actions through constitutional rights.

By: OGR Admin

In this Up Close, a number of leading scholars examine the authoritarian turn of various governments, looking particularly at how they borrow and misappropriate ...

 

By: Daniel Braaten
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The Chinese government’s impact on the international human rights regime is not well documented and a recommitment from the US to human rights is not fully clear ...

 

By: Devon Kearney
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Recent years have seen backsliding on our common, global commitment to human rights, and climate change threatens to further erode that support.

By: Joscha Jelitzki
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An initiative to foster a campus environment in which no one, Jewish or not, has to be afraid of being different required a human rights mindset.

By: Andrés Besserer Rayas & Maria Fernanda Orozco Naranjo & Sebastian Portilla Parra & Gabriela del Pilar Thiriat Pedraza
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Arbitrary cancellation of nationality has serious sociolegal effects that are being documented in Colombia.

By: William Nee
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As the Chinese government seeks “center stage,” its compliance with its human rights obligations should be there as well.

By: Matthias Mahlmann
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There is no reason whatsoever that can be derived from the theories of evolution and human psychology that undermines the case for human rights.

By: Salma Houerbi
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Massive raids and attacks against Black migrants in Tunisia, triggered by a virulent online campaign, recall the urgent need for big tech to scrutinize the human ...

 

By: Sarthak Gupta
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The Supreme Court of India could ban the so-called “virginity tests” in cases of rape and sexual assault.

By: Rafael Uzcátegui
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Venezuela's democratic political and social leadership needs to reflect on its strategies to confront authoritarianism, as well as its strengths and weaknesses, ...

 

By: Jamie O'Connell & James Cavallaro
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The ICC can do better by learning from regional human rights institutions.

By: Sophie Mulphin & Tom Clarke
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Stories told at the UN about human rights defenders have a major impact on how they are perceived and supported on the ground.

By: Liliane Loya & Ellen Sprenger & Lucas Paulson
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Five trends that are reorganizing the way funding agencies can work for philanthropic causes.

By: Tobias Lebens
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New links between literature and human rights open the door to understand evidence and new ways of narrating.

By: Ligia Bolívar
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Virtual activism makes some human rights causes visible but reduces engagement on the street.

By: Julia Roig & James Savage
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The narratives we engage & deploy shape our world. In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories & tactics drive collaboration within & between movements?

By: Thalia Viveros Uehara & Juan Auz
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The Inter-American Court will likely be the first regional human rights tribunal to develop an advisory opinion on the climate emergency, prompting normative effects ...

 

By: Joel R. Pruce
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A shadow report presented to the Committee Against Torture brought police brutality in the US to an international human rights scenario.

By: Susan Ann Samuel
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The need to include ecofeminism in climate and biodiversity discussions is now more crucial than ever.

By: Mihreteab Tsighe Taye
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Rwanda’s case illustrates the risks of withdrawing from regional human rights bodies.

By: Isabell Sluka
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How #LeaveNoOneBehind advocated a reconfiguration of pro-migrant solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic and what we can all learn from it as we face current and ...

 

By: Isabel Huot-Link & Angela Rose Myers & Socorro Topete
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Protesters of African descent, victims of police brutality, and their families need accountability and healing to find justice.

By: Shaharzad Akbar & David Griffiths
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What can we learn from the setbacks suffered by human rights?

By: Gráinne de Burca & Katharine G. Young
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Some human rights discourses have been appropriated by actors who go against human rights principles.

By: Ercüment Çelik
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Academic freedom is being attacked around the world—how can we create solidarity networks against such attacks?

By: Joshua Gellers
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Steps have been taken to widen the scope of the “human” part of human rights—and to rethink the way those more-than-human entities also impact human rights.

By: Elisa Orrù
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Moving away from the currently prevalent Big Data mindset towards a Small Data approach would help improve the sustainability of AI systems and would additionally ...

 

By: Tracey Holland & Yeonjae Hwang
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Victimhood can easily disempower children and silence their voices as well as their claims to human rights, particularly their participation rights.

By: Pamela Camacho & Steffen Jensen
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In Duterte’s war on drugs, women victims have been largely invisible.

By: Michiel Hoornick
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It seemed that economic and political concerns drove several countries to vote against a resolution to discuss the human rights for Uyghurs in China.

By: Patricia Tarre Moser
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A new Advisory Opinion of the IACtHR underscores the penalties that deprive pregnant women, caregivers, elderly and Indigenous persons of their liberty.

By: Ellie Happel & Beth Hoagland & Olriche Jean Pierre & Tess Russo
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An interdisciplinary research team conducted the first community-owned baseline study on water in an area included in a mining permit in northern Haiti.

By: Jillienne Haglund & Courtney Hillebrecht
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A new tool helps people track recommendations and compliance about women’s rights in Europe.

By: Victoria Adelmant & Christiaan van Veen
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Algorithms calculating the probability of fraud were overwhelmingly and wrongly targeting immigrant groups.

 
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