Browsing 01. Global Campus Policy Briefs by Title
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Planet over Profit? A Reality Check of Europe’s Aspirational Climate Policies
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The European Green Deal (EGD) aspires to become the transformational agenda putting the European Union’s (EU’s) economies and societies firmly on the path towards sustainability. This paper casts in doubt several presumptions ... -
Promoting access to justice in Africa: key points for advocacy on the Southern African Development Community Tribunal
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)This policy paper provides insights to strengthen advocacy for the restoration of the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (SADC Tribunal) in its original form. The focus on the SADC Tribunal is as a result of ... -
Sri Lanka’s urban-centred development trajectory: implications for rights-based development policy
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Sri Lanka’s urban development policies and strategies outline an urban transformation that would generate economic opportunities and dividends for Sri Lanka’s overall national economy. The paper attempts to uncover the ... -
State of pandemonium: Digital rights in the Western Balkans and COVID-19
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic caused many shockwaves globally, eg disruption to daily interaction (physical and social distancing measures), disruption to education, disruption to work, restrictions on freedom of movement, etc. ... -
Strategic roadmap for Nepal: Integrating United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into domestic law
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Taking the business sector in Nepal as a subject, we can observe that it is continuously growing. Nepal’s constitution has directed the economic objective of the state to achieve sustainable economic development with the ... -
Traffic surveillance and human rights: How can states overcome the negative impact of surveillance technologies on the individual right to respect for privacy and personal data protection?
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)The crucial role of surveillance technologies for the enforcement of traffic laws and prevention of traffic accidents, as well as for the development of modern traffic management systems and regulation of traffic jams, is ... -
The use of facial recognition technology in EU law enforcement: Fundamental rights implications
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)Facial recognition technology is a type of biometric application used to identify people’s faces based on datasets and then makes assessments about those people based on algorithmic predictions. This technology can be ... -
Women human rights defenders in a new social and political reality of Armenia: active in the margins, unprotected in the core
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019)Women human rights defenders stand up for women’s rights and gender equality, they see and believe in the importance of being vocal for those women and girls around the world that are somehow deprived from the opportunity ... -
Your face rings a bell : How facial recognition poses a threat for human rights
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020)‘The greatest danger still lies ahead, with the refinement of artificial intelligence capabilities, such as facial and pattern recognition.’ (Edward Snowden) In 2013, Edward Snowden published historical revelations ... -
Youth Activism and Climate Change in Latin America: Indigenous and Peasant Youth in Defence of their Human Rights and Territories
(Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021)The objective of this policy brief is to generate public policy recommendations on the role of indigenous and peasant youth in the defence of their human rights, their territories and the actions they are carrying out to ... -
Youth unemployment in the Arab World
(Global Campus, 2018)There is no doubt that the youth unemployment crisis in the Arab world is the most serious of all the world’s regions in terms of its magnitude, trends, and social and political implications. In fact, Arab governments have ...
