The biggest challenge is that the government does not have a monopoly over the legitimate use of force.
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The Olympics, and all “mega sports,” are inevitably embedded in the political contexts of their times. To dismiss or bypass the political issues that arise seems naïve at best.
Governments declined to take part in the Uyghur Tribunal’s investigation. But the body of scholarly evidence for its claims, and its ruling, is thorough and extensive.
Olympic broadcasters can help Canadians support the Uyghurs, Tibetans, pro-democracy advocates and others fighting for their human rights in China by cancelling their Olympic coverage.
Videos taken by ordinary people can help prosecute those who commit atrocities – but this evidence must be stored reliably.
When the Truth and Reconciliation was mandated to investigate human rights violations from March 1960, that left twelve years of apartheid rule unexplored.
The study of the Holocaust, as the ultimate example of genocide, allows teachers to raise the universal message of human rights abuses and mass violence.
One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.
Although it’s failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
My analysis of 3,000 pages of secret internal military documents strengthens findings pointing to the Indonesian military’s involvement in the 1965-66 genocide.
The gap between the continent’s most democratic and authoritarian regions is likely to continue to grow.
Reports have emerged of Uighur women being forcibly sterilised in China’s Xinjiang province. Why this could be genocide under international law.
Ramaphosa’s call for a new social compact will fall on deaf ears unless there are some fundamental changes to the way in which the pandemic is being managed.
Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
Despite a recent Tahoe Resources settlement and apology to Guatemalan protesters, Canadian companies can still get away with crimes committed abroad — even in the face of insurmountable evidence.
The Timol ruling will not only have implications for crimes under apartheid, but also put the focus on torture within the South African Police Service.
Having Egypt at the helm of the African Union might not bode well for human rights on the continent.
The ongoing diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia will hurt Canada if the kingdom intensifies its aggressive retaliation measures.
The UN human rights council can certainly be improved, but the worst way to do that is by walking away.
Human rights abuses might be embedded in the business model that has evolved for social media companies in their second decade.
Top contributors
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Sarah Joseph is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Fellow, Saint Mary’s University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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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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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Researcher and founder member of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Programme manager of the Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, School of governance, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Sessional Instructor, Department of Literature and Language, Concordia University of Edmonton