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DIGITAL GLOBAL RIGHTS JOURNAL
The Digital Global Rights Journal is FGHR’s leading publication on human rights issues, policies, and practices around the world. Articles are produced by our team of capable and creative writers, and edited by experienced and supportive editors prior to publication. The Digital Global Rights Journal creates a space for the expression of novel and innovative perspectives and insights on contemporary human rights questions.
Chloe Bisset
Jun 23, 20232 min read
Universities as Agents of Change in Humanitarian Crises: An Event Reflection
FGHR hosted a selection of panellists at the University of Edinburgh on the 22nd June for a moderated Q&A and a follow on workshop on the...
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Dylan Fowler
May 16, 20237 min read
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and Historical Denialism
In April of 2021, the Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliyev, spoke before rows of soldiers assembled to celebrate the opening of the...
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Seonwoo Yoon
Mar 29, 20235 min read
The Reality of Sexed Desires in Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex
A better representation of the reality in which gender interacts with other social identities is of central importance in The Right to...
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Solveig Lee
Mar 28, 20237 min read
Modern Marxist Dispossession: the NHS
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is an institution which seems to uphold the remains of a British socialist welfare...
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Anna Shapiro
Mar 25, 20237 min read
Op-Ed: Women’s equality depends on the decriminalisation of sex work
All over the world, sex workers are marginalised, stigmatised, and face a persistent risk of human rights abuses. It is this writer’s...
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Dylan Fowler
Mar 21, 20236 min read
Op-Ed on 'The Woman King'
In the Western world, historical costume dramas have repeatedly tread familiar ground, predominantly retelling stories which find White...
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Hannah Anesu Costelloe
Feb 27, 20239 min read
An Epidemic: Gender Based Violence Against Women in South Africa
“A University of KZN student is overcome with emotion during a protest over security on campus” |By Sandile Ndlovu On the 25th of...
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Hannah Shaw
Feb 22, 20238 min read
Transitional Justice through Economic Justice? Where ‘Traditional’ Transitional Justice Is Limited
Transitional justice frameworks, although having a legal background, have increasingly overlapped in practice with projects of...
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Rawan Ammar
Feb 13, 202320 min read
The IHRA definition of Antisemitism and the case of Palestinian Human Rights.
Writer’s Note. The premise of this article is that conflating antisemitism with anti-Zionism with no nuance or consideration for the...
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Nasreen Basheer
Feb 10, 202312 min read
The Kafala System: Modern Slavery or a Labor System under Repair?
The FIFA World Cup ’22 in Qatar has been embroiled in controversy since its hosting rights were first granted to the Arab country in...
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Lucia Vazquez
Feb 6, 20235 min read
Let's talk about the FIFA World Cup 2022, and the implications on Human Rights in Qatar.
The new year marks a period of reflection for many, and as we look back on 2022, the World Cup is an event that sticks in the mind as not...
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Asia Bertuccioli
Jan 16, 20237 min read
The Nobel Peace Prize or Aspirational Prize?
Alfred Nobel was a man of several interests. However, perhaps his most well-known legacy is what are known today as the most prestigious...
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Georgia Bentley
Dec 11, 20229 min read
Parkland Shooter Nicholas Cruz was Spared Death: What is the Future of Capital Punishment?
On February 14th, 2018, Nicholas Cruz carried out one of the deadliest school shootings in American History when he took an AR-15...
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Isobel Mohr
Dec 6, 20229 min read
A System on Support: Understanding US Insulin Prices in 2022
Insulin prices in the US have been increasing for decades, leaving diabetics who require the life-saving drug to ration off their basic...
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Nasreen Basheer
Nov 14, 20226 min read
Internal Displacement: A problem greater than acknowledged
“Shelter from tarps and sticks'' [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tro-kilinochchi/2818024349/in/photostream/] by trokilinochchi. Used under...
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Anna Shapiro
Nov 8, 20225 min read
The legacy of apartheid in Damon Galgut’s The Promise
Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-Winning novel The Promise (2021) charts and critiques South Africa’s transition out of apartheid through the...
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Dylan Fowler
Nov 3, 202211 min read
Propria Persona: Personhood and Slavery in the Late Roman Empire
A slave tag (5.8 cm in diameter) inscribed with information about return. Rome, Italy, 4th century AD., British Museum.[1] The field of...
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Hannah Shaw
Nov 1, 202210 min read
Krugersdorp: A case study of contemporary human rights violations in South Africa
South African police during the raid of an illegal mine in Krugersdorp, August 03 2022.[1] Immediately following apartheid and the...
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Nasreen Basheer
Oct 29, 20228 min read
Is the Indian judiciary heralding a new age of feminist jurisprudence?
In September this year, the Supreme Court of India, while hearing a woman’s petition to permit the termination of their pregnancy,...
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Anna Shapiro
Oct 16, 20225 min read
Mahsa Amini: Gendered Oppression and the Media’s Responsibility
In the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death, Western media must avoid reductive attitudes towards the oppression suffered by the women of Iran and...
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