Human Rights

Foreign Aid and Development Outcomes: Is the U.S. Lagging Behind?

Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Alexandra Avram • Nov 24 2016 • Articles

Improving safeguards and accountability will allow people to have a voice and a choice in their own development. That is something the US should be proud to champion.

Disrupting the ‘Conditional Selfhood’ of Threat Construction

Kathryn Marie Fisher • Aug 15 2016 • Articles

It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.

Teaching International Organizations as Bureaucracies

Simon Fink • Jul 14 2016 • Articles

It can only be a good thing if students learn about the power inherent in definitions, and can reflect on the normative problems arising from these definitions.

Back to Basics: Humanitarian Action and Accountability to Affected Populations

Ana Mosneaga • Jul 11 2016 • Articles

Getting to know the crisis-affected communities better may help to remember that they are the very raison d’être for the humanitarian action.

The European Response to the Syrian War: Pathologies Uncovered

Christiane Fröhlich • Jul 8 2016 • Articles

The EU must effectively address its migration pathologies and dysfunctionalities to fulfil its humanitarian promise to be a space of freedom, prosperity and rule of law

The Role of Independent Volunteers in Humanitarian Crises

Izabela Pereira Watts • Jun 29 2016 • Articles

Independent volunteers play a key role in humanitarian crises yet there is no such thing as “true independence” when the reality is feelings of frustration and futility.

The Shadows of Tiananmen: Chinese Foreign Policy and Human Rights

Jessica Kirk • Apr 15 2016 • Essays

Since Tiananmen Square 1989, China’s understanding of the significant yet contingent power of human rights discourse has guided much of its foreign policy on the subject.

The Impact of Human Rights Mobilization on Colombia’s Justice and Peace Law

Veronika Hoelker • Mar 7 2016 • Essays

Colombia’s controversial ‘Justice and Peace’ Law has unified human rights advocates on anti-amnesty attitudes while contributing to new disputes on accountability.

The Significance of the ‘Human Security’ Paradigm in International Politics

Aydar Gazizullin • Feb 29 2016 • Essays

The topic of human security is multifaceted and demands caution when analysed in different contexts.

The Outbreak of the Zika Virus and Reproductive Rights in Latin America

Marianna Leite • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

There has been a range of reactions to the Zika outbreak, the most alarming being the impairment of women’s reproductive rights and access to safe abortion services.

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