Watching the small print in business and human rights
Imagine an innovative Alternative Dispute Resolution proposal for international individual claims, offered as a solution, in the context of Business and Human Rights, to the lack of access to forums of the home country of a Corporation.
Read MoreImagine Living in a Meritocracy
Promoting the debate about a fair evaluation of merit should be an important task for the human rights movement since several demands from minority and historically excluded groups, such as access to higher education or affirmative action policies in employment, find opposition in nominally meritocratic arguments.
Read MoreIllicit Drug Sales in the Deep Web: Safer Trading for Whom?
The creativity evidenced by drug traders and consumers reminds us that prohibition got it all wrong by making “a drug-free world” its main objective.
Thinking with Bubbles: Human Rights, Inequality and Poverty
Statistics are a good antidote to our prejudices. And if they are presented in a pedagogical way, and even in a fun way, they have a greater potential to question them.
Read MoreMuzzling humor in the Ecuadorean Revolution
In Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government muzzles critique and attacks satirists in an increasingly anti-democratic environment.
Read MoreThe ICC and Negotiated Peace: Reflections from Colombia
The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.
Read MoreThe Decline of Grand Treaties? Thoughts after the Lima Climate Summit
Civil society pressure from the bottom-up, rather than top-down treaty obligations, is the only way to get governments to act on global warming.
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