From LGBTQIA+ to SOGIESC: Reframing sexuality, gender, and …
Jun 9, 2023 · The use of the LGBTQIA+ abbreviation can actually end up reinforcing the idea of otherness by setting up a proliferation of small, discrete groups perceived as separated from the general population. The alternative framing of SOGIESC offers an antidote to many of these dilemmas. “The term SOGIESC is more expansive because everyone has a ...
How inequality threatens all human rights - OpenGlobalRights
Oct 29, 2015 · Inequality is not only a threat to economic and social rights—it threatens the realization of all forms of rights everywhere. At the global level, economic crises, armed conflict, public health emergencies, food insecurity and climate change have all threatened the realization of human rights. Within this constellation of factors, the ...
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Combatting modern slavery with human rights - OpenGlobalRights
Aug 14, 2018 · Finally, the main principles found within human rights based approaches to development apply equally to the problem of modern slavery. These principles include the (1) universality and inalienability of rights, (2) indivisibility, (3) interdependence and inter-relatedness, (4) equality and non-discrimination, (5) participation and inclusion, (6 ...
Putting to rest the Three Generations Theory of human rights
Nov 15, 2017 · Vasak modified the theory by linking the three generations to the French Revolution’s three concepts of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité, thus backdating it another 150 years. The theory appears to have supported two political dynamics. It promoted the third generation “collective” rights agenda pushed by a number of UN member states to ...
The right to design babies? Human rights and bioethics
Jan 8, 2019 · The gene-editing scandal that made headlines in late November, with researcher He Jiankui claiming to have created twin girls whose DNA he had altered at the embryo stage, heightened global awareness of a consequential and close-at-hand decision about how to use and regulate powerful new human biotechnologies.This controversy about whether altering the genes of future children and generations ...
The failures of the UN in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Jan 22, 2024 · From the time Israel’s bombardment began to January 18, 2024, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported at least 24,620 Gazans killed and 61,830 Palestinians injured in Gaza. Some 70 percent of the fatalities have been women and children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health; the World Health Organization ...
Technology and human rights | OpenGlobalRights
May 16, 2018 · Examples of how technology can be used as a powerful tool for human rights are ever expanding. Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, and blockchain have the potential to make significant positive contributions to the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, however, rapid developments in artificial ...
Yes, economic and social rights really are human rights
Aug 8, 2014 · Earlier on openGlobalRights, Pedro Pizano argued that socio-economic rights are not really human rights at all, because they are not immediately enforceable in a court of law. Civil and political rights, by contrast, are human rights, because they can be immediately and judicially enforced. This argument is similar to that voiced earlier on openGlobalRights by Aryeh Neier, founder of Human ...
What makes a human rights campaign effective? - OpenGlobalRights
Oct 26, 2017 · Within human rights campaigns, frames serve to: 1) define the problem; 2) suggest possible remedies; and, most importantly, 3) motivate society to engage. Campaigns that integrate these three framing functions, while being articulate and sensitive to local contexts, tend to be the most effective. Second, because framing is so important, counter ...