This book, edited by Morten Kjaerum and Martha F. Davis, looks at human rights, poverty, and inequality as a metonym for current and future challenges with regard to Sustainable Development Goals.
Contributors to the book cover many topics and thematic … Continue reading » “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty”
Continue readingMore TagCOVID-19 and Human Rights – edited by Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, and Amanda Lyons – contains a series explorations into COVID-19 and its effects on human rights on a global scale. The book’s scope is wide, going from discussing … Continue reading » “COVID-19 and Human Rights”
Continue readingMore TagThis report is a result of a study of Human Rights Cities and SDGs in the Asia region in 2019. The study investigates the process of adoption and institutionalization of the Human Rights City concept, and the challenges of realizing … Continue reading » “Human Rights Cities and SDGs in the Asia region in 2019”
Continue readingMore TagCities are well-positioned to realize both sustainable development goals and human rights. Policy implementation, delivery of public services, and the reproduction of inclusive societies take place in cities, where 80 per cent of global GDP is generated (SDSN 2016:11). Cities … Continue reading » “Human Rights Cities and the SDGs”
Continue readingMore TagHuman rights have very little meaning if they do not protect people where they live their lives, and people live locally where municipalities and regions exercise their authority. Consequently, the local authorities share the responsibility with the government to respect, … Continue reading » “Human Rights Cities and Regions”
Continue readingMore TagCities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the ‘translation’ of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to … Continue reading » “Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities”
Continue readingMore TagSwedish municipalities have initiated more than 80 evictions of vulnerable EU citizens, mostly Roma, from informal settlements on the grounds of poor sanitation since 2013, according to a new report from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian … Continue reading » “Inconvenient Human Rights: Access to Water and Sanitation in Sweden’s Informal Roma Settlements”
Continue readingMore TagIn the absence of a fundamental right to a basic level of drinking water and sanitation in the United States, this article examines the ways in which federal and local civil rights laws provide an alternative legal infrastructure to ensure … Continue reading » “Let Justice Roll Down: A Case Study of the Legal Infrastructure for Water Equality and Affordability”
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