Nada sobre la detención sin las personas detenidas: la participación como herramienta de prevención
Las políticas de detención son habitualmente diseñadas, aplicadas y evaluadas por personas que nunca han experimentado la detención. Se consulta a las personas detenidas cuando las instituciones necesitan información: los...
Rien sur la détention sans les personnes détenues : la participation comme outil de prévention
Les politiques de détention sont couramment conçues, mises en œuvre et évaluées souvent par des personnes qui n’ont jamais connu la détention. Les personnes détenues sont consultées lorsque les institutions...
Nothing About Detention Without Detainees: Participation as a Tool of Prevention
Detention policies are routinely designed, implemented, and evaluated by people who have never experienced detention. People in detention are consulted when institutions need information: inspectors interview them, researchers collect their...
Housing and Human Rights Futures
This brilliant book, ‘Housing and Human Rights’ by Jessie Hohmann, is a model of theory and practice. It concludes in Chapter 9 with five human rights principles, or premises, for...
Cultural and Environmental Rights are Human Rights: Lessons from the Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems
In February 2026, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, issued a landmark report arguing that cultural relationships with the environment are a core component...
Niger’s New Anti-LGBTQIA+ Law Violates the Human Rights of Intersex Persons
In February 2026, Niger’s military junta implemented a new Penal Code criminalising indecent, unnatural, and LGBTQIA+ acts with imprisonment ranging from 5 to ten years, alongside monetary penalties (Article 390)....
Kulturelle und ökologische Rechte sind Menschenrechte: Lehren aus der Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems
Im Februar 2026 veröffentlichte die UN-Sonderberichterstatterin im Bereich kulturelle Rechte, Alexandra Xanthaki, einen wegweisenden Bericht, der darlegt, dass kulturelle Beziehungen zur Umwelt ein zentraler Bestandteil des internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes sind. Der...
Making Apartheid Irreversible: Israel’s Death Penalty Statutes and Third State Obligations
When the Israeli Knesset voted to approve the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill on 30 March 2026, it made irreversible through state-administered killing what the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
Gender-Based Violence and the Struggle for Justice: Rohingya Women at the Intersection of Law and Displacement
For Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the refugee camp is not simply a humanitarian space. It is a site where gender-based violence (GBV) is woven into the structures of...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part II
The first part of this discussion examined the growing tendency of powerful states not merely to violate international legal rules but to reshape their meaning through increasingly expansive interpretations of...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part I
One of international law’s oldest and most hard-won achievements risks being dismantled in plain sight, and the legal community has apparently not yet reckoned with what that would mean in...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives
In Part 1, I examined how Bangladesh’s interim government weaponized legal frameworks to suppress the press; Part 2 broadens the lens to parallel patterns across the wider Global South and...
