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Precarity Squared: The Intersectional Lived Experiences of African Transgender Migrants in Sweden
Abstract Sweden is globally considered not only a country with generous refugee reception policies but also a leading example of...
Miles Tanhira
23 min read
Conflict and Constitutionalism in Sudan: In Conversation with Abdelkhalig Shaib
Abdelkhalig Shaib is a Sudanese attorney and member of the American and New York Bar Associations, who specializes in constitutionalism...
Solomon Njombai
26 min read
That is the Work of Rohingya Women—It Cannot be Mistaken for Anyone Else’s Labour: In Conversation with Yasmin Ullah and Doreen Chen
Yasmin Ullah is a Rohingya author, poet, and human rights activist based in Canada. Born in the North Arakan state of Myanmar/Burma, she...
Alexandra Marcy Hall
31 min read
Afghan Women’s Rights to Education and Health Care in a Culture of Impunity
In the aftermath of the Second World War, just over seventy-five years ago the international community embraced the Universal Declaration...
Sima Samar
15 min read
Advocacy for Afghan Women Judges: In Conversation with Marzia Babakarkhail
Marzia Babakarkhail, a former family law judge in Afghanistan during the 1990s, has dedicated her career to justice. In the wake of the...
Angelina Spilnyk
11 min read
From Syria to the Silver Screen: In Conversation with Jay Abdo
Jay Abdo is a Syrian actor and human rights activist, who has featured in various films and television shows in the Middle East and...
Nour Kachi
15 min read
Foreword to CJLPA: The Human Agenda
The three broad categories of the title express overlapping perspectives of human difference. Read together they comprise the topic of...
Sir David Baragwanath
6 min read
International Law and Human Rights: The Way Forward
We are all responsible for what happens in our world. In the intricate tapestry of global affairs, we face a stark reality: amidst a...
Nadia Jahnecke
5 min read
The Human Agenda: A word from the Editor-in-Chief
A word from the Editor-in-Chief, Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim The last edition of the Journal ended with these words, from Léon...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
3 min read
The Airspace Tribunal and the Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat from Above: In Conversation with Shona Illingworth and Nick Grief
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK. Her work examines the...
Aidan Johnson
20 min read
Making the Case for Prosecuting the Taliban for Crimes Against Humanity and Gender Apartheid in the ICC for the Unlawful Imprisonment of Afghan Women and Girls
Since 15 August 2021, the Taliban Government continues to suppress the progression of women’s basic human rights in Afghanistan,...
Kimberley Motley
20 min read
Children as a Vehicle of Genocide
Introduction The epitome of the 21st century’s Russian war against Ukraine manifested itself in Vladimir Putin’s speech on the morning...
Iryna Zaverukha
34 min read
‘In Place of Hate’: In Conversation with Edmund Clark
Edmund Clark uses photography, film, found imagery, and text to explore links between representation and politics. Clark’s work has been...
Gabriella Kardos
19 min read
Sexual Violence and Birth Prevention: Conceptualizing Beijing’s Attacks on Uyghur Reproductive Capacities as a Settler Colonialist Strategy of Attritional Genocide
NOTICE: This article contains information that some readers may find distressing. ‘Take her to the dark room’, said the Han Chinese man...
Adrian Zenz
25 min read
Potemkin Judges: Critical Reflections on the Continued Presence of Hong Kong’s Overseas Non-Permanent Judges
Introduction On 30 June 2020, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) in Beijing imposed its ‘National Security Law’...
Alvin YH Cheung
19 min read
Gaza: Can Anyone Hear Us?
Gaza: Can Anyone Hear Us?[1] In a Washington Post article published on 16 December 2023, the reporter David Ignatius wrote: For...
Sara Roy
37 min read
Exposing Torture Crimes in Russian Prisons: In Conversation with Vladimir Osechkin
Vladimir Osechkin is a Russian-born human rights activist and founder of Gulagu.net, an NGO that documents and exposes crimes committed...
Nadia Jahnecke
11 min read
Traversing Boundaries: In Conversation with Peter Krausz
Peter Krausz was born in Romania in 1946. He studied mural painting from 1964 to 1969 at the Bucharest Institute of Fine Arts. Since...
Gabriella Kardos
16 min read
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