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”
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COVID-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”
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Seventy years after the signing of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Morten Kjaerum and Mikael Rask Madsen discuss how politicians in Denmark must choose whether they should follow an illiberal or democratic path.… Continue reading » “Seventy Years of Human Rights”
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Cities 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”
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Det är just i svåra tider som de mänskliga rättigheterna testas. Därför måste EU och Europarådet stärkas som centrala aktörer när det kommer till skyddet av våra grundläggande europeiska värderingar, skriver Morten Kjaerum, direktör för Raoul Wallenberg Institutet i vår … Continue reading » “Solidaritet och samarbete stoppar ickedemokraterna”
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Flyktingmottagandet i Europa är en politisk kris. Att vi blev tagna på sängen är inte sant, säger Morten Kjaerum på Raoul Wallenberg Institutet. FN varnade men möttes av tystnad.… Continue reading » “Mänskliga rättigheter i kris”
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Europas nyckelaktörer måste ha uthållighet, insikt och historiskt minne för att kunna stå emot förenklade och populistiska argument mot yttrandefriheten, skriver Morten Kjaerum, chef för Raoul Wallenberg-institutet.… Continue reading » “Ytterst står det demokratiska samhället på spel”
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“Fifty Years of Success” could be the headline for the celebration of the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966. … Continue reading » “From International Law to Local Communities : The Role of the United Nations in the Realization of Human Rights”
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