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Storytelling can be a process of seeking social equilibrium after violence. We examine this proposition through the stories of Ajok, an Acholi woman who was abducted by the rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda and who was [...]

This Practice Note offers a critical assessment of a trilogy of plays presented by the Belarus Free Theatre in New York in 2011 – highlighting the ways in which the company’s practice extends our sense of the possibilities for radical human [...]

The trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch (Case 001), at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was the first in the history of international criminal justice in which surviving victims of alleged crimes could participate directly [...]

In our continuing series of reflections by human rights practitioners on their work, Heiner Bielefeldt reflects here on his first year in post as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. In the interview, Professor Bielefeldt discusses [...]

This paper explores the recent change of legal status of the solicitation of sex services in Cambodia brought about by the recently adopted Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. In Cambodia, the practices associated with [...]

The international non-governmental organization (NGO) ActionAid has been working with a human rights-based approach to development since 1998. Over the past year it has been reviewing its work and has developed a new agency-wide strategy for [...]

This policy note examines the reasoning and implications of the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the milestone case of Kawas v. Honduras. In its first-ever ruling on environmental defenders, the Court found a positive [...]

Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History challenges the conventions of human rights historiography and offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the origins of the global human rights movement. Journal of Human Rights Practice [...]