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Disrupting Cultural Norms Through Occupational Health and Safety:  A Convention 190 Perspective

Disrupting Cultural Norms Through Occupational Health and Safety: A Convention 190 Perspective

Image description: Woman holds a handwritten pink sign which reads ‘A woman’s body is not yours to take: I am a sexual abuse survivor and I will not be silenced’...
North African States Struggle to Protect the Human Rights of Irregular Migrants in their Territory

North African States Struggle to Protect the Human Rights of Irregular Migrants in their Territory

North African states like Libya, Egypt and Algeria continue to struggle to meet their human rights obligations to irregular migrants. For almost a decade, North Africa has been an important...
Sustainable Conservation: The Rights-Based Way to Save Africa’s Rainforests

Sustainable Conservation: The Rights-Based Way to Save Africa’s Rainforests

A new report by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) shows that people living in Africa’s Congo Basin face widespread and intensifying human rights abuses in the name of conservation. Addressing...
The Missing Peace? Global-Regional Partnerships in Africa

The Missing Peace? Global-Regional Partnerships in Africa

UN peace operations have reached unprecedented levels of cost, complexity and risk – and its operational focus is clear. Nine of the 16 current UN peacekeeping missions are in Africa,...
The Power of Perception: The ICC and Africa

The Power of Perception: The ICC and Africa

At a recent event organised by Oxford Transitional Justice Research and the ICC Student Network, Judge Cuno Tarfusser of the International Criminal Court (ICC) addressed a group of students and...
Bloody Diamonds and the Sordid “Trans-Atlantic Affair”: Where to From Here?

Bloody Diamonds and the Sordid “Trans-Atlantic Affair”: Where to From Here?

Through decades of complicit trade, blood diamonds have made their way from their African countries of origin across the Atlantic for cutting, polishing and beneficiation into European countries of export...

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