Last week on OpenGlobalRights, authors debated whether the High Commissioner for Human Rights job is do-able at all, how best to defend LGBTI communities in Indonesia, and why mapping human rights funding can improve advocacy.
The UK has a long and inglorious history of political and military support for dictatorships. Ministerial statements suggest Brexit will make it even worse.
Turkey and the Gulf monarchies in their savvy, if reactionary, use of aid have become important players in the international donors club.
Women in construction experience some of the highest rates of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. Let’s not forget women like Outi Hicks in the current #MeToo moment.
Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’ populations of Ghbonton, Tunisia have a complex relationship with each other.
The racialisation of the anti-slavery struggle in Mauritania has created a patchwork of identities and alliances.
The shift towards a collective identity based on race has had major implications for Yemen’s most marginalised people.
Even student and young professional Senegalese migrants have to navigate the legacies of slavery in Morocco as ‘Africans’.
Small acts of love have the potential to join together to create a more compassionate society.
For centuries, Europe’s Christians have shut Jews behind ghetto walls. Now, Polish Christians intend to shut the voice of Jewish suffering into a ghetto of silence behind a legal wall.
Don’t focus on the reverberating sounds of the echo chamber, look at the structure that has formed it, before you even realised, and right before your eyes.
