When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the mainland and Hawaii
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The activities of artisanal small-scale miners can be turned into an economic good.
Transgender people are more than four times as likely to be the victim of a crime as cisgender people.
In the five years since the Windrush scheme was set up, the scandal of how British people have been treated by their own government has only worsened.
A fire killed 38 migrants in a Mexico detention facility in March 2023. A sociologist’s conversations with migrants show that they had a common response to this news – a deep sense of grief.
LGBTQ rights are not the main issue bringing Israeli protesters to the streets, but they do symbolize the country’s stark divide.
In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
Instead of forcing people into substance use treatment, provinces should work with municipalities and health boards to expand life-saving safe use sites and tackle the housing crisis.
The conditions placed on countries borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund have further disadvantaged these countries economically.
Setting up AI-free ‘sanctuaries’ could allow us to reap the technology’s benefits while offering vital safeguards to our cognitive capacities and privacy.
Those rights require legal protection.
Justice Mokgoro’s advocacy for group solidarity and reconciliation is discernible in several of her judgments.
Anti-LGBT sentiments are on the rise around the world, and Canada is not immune to the tide. Now is the time for us to speak out and denounce anti-LGBTQ actions and rhetoric.
The brutal methods employed by the French police to maintain order during protests contrast with those of its European neighbours.
Religious freedom has grown more important in US foreign policy – but does that come at the expense of promoting other human rights?
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits Canadian police from using excessive force and conducting unreasonable searches. But research has found many cases of police violating the Charter.
Publisher Ernest Moret was detained under terrorism powers for taking part in protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
Dignity is at the centre of many rights-based declarations, but to eradicate racist policy and practices, we must commit to noticing each other’s personhood in new ways.
Those determining bail must reflect on their own beliefs and show restraint as they determine risk to avoid relying on false racist narratives. So should those calling for bail reform.
Though public opinion surveys offer some hope, there are several concerns for democracy’s consolidation in West Africa.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Sarah Joseph is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, and acting SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria
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