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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageIn Africa, human rights and religion often go togetherIn Africa and other regions in the global South, religion and human rights support similar values. For years,...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageThe hypocrisy of foreign funding laws in EthiopiaIn the constantly shrinking space for civil society around the world, Ethiopia faces some enormous challenges in...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageFaith and health care in Africa: a complex realityIt’s time to move past overly simplistic arguments surrounding Catholics and condoms, and make an effort to...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageEast African rights activists are badly out of touchThe high-minded words of East African activists are often lost on their intended beneficiaries, many of whom are...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageKenyan rights groups under fire: are officials abusing the “Beijing Consensus”?Kenyan officials under International Criminal Court indictment seek caps for foreign funding to local NGOs, raising...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageExploring local possibilities for local rightsDesigning and planning solutions to human rights problems from thousands of miles away often produces unsustainable...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageLocal funds for local issues: raising the barInternational aid is not ethically wrong, and local rights groups will use it for years to come. We must also...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageThe Central African Republic facing its R2P moment of truthThe world is responding, albeit slowly, to the human rights crisis in the Central African Republic, showing that –...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageIn Kenya, averting a move to strangle civil society with the financial nooseIn October Kenya introduced legislation capping foreign funding to NGOs and requiring that money be channeled...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageHuman rights for whom? A closer look at elitism and women’s rights in AfricaThe problem of ‘top-down’ human rights work is particularly pronounced among the marginalized women and girls who...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageUS policy in the DRC is about interests, not alliesThe US cares chiefly about stability in the DRC, rather than promoting Rwandan or Ugandan national interests....
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageThe challenge of finding funding for gay rights in CameroonWhen the EU awarded a large grant to Alice Nkom for her work defending gay people in Cameroon it was attacked for...
