Cities are well-positioned to realize both sustainable development goals and human rights. Policy implementation, delivery of public services, and the reproduction of inclusive societies take place in cities, where 80 per cent of global GDP is generated (SDSN 2016:11). Cities … Continue reading » “Human Rights Cities and the SDGs”
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Human Rights Cities and Regions
Human rights have very little meaning if they do not protect people where they live their lives, and people live locally where municipalities and regions exercise their authority. Consequently, the local authorities share the responsibility with the government to respect, … Continue reading » “Human Rights Cities and Regions”
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Cities, Human Rights, and Accountability: The United States Experience
Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities
Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the ‘translation’ of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to … Continue reading » “Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities”
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Inconvenient Human Rights: Access to Water and Sanitation in Sweden’s Informal Roma Settlements
Swedish municipalities have initiated more than 80 evictions of vulnerable EU citizens, mostly Roma, from informal settlements on the grounds of poor sanitation since 2013, according to a new report from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian … Continue reading » “Inconvenient Human Rights: Access to Water and Sanitation in Sweden’s Informal Roma Settlements”
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Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the U.N. Treaty on Women’s Rights by Lisa Baldez
Let Justice Roll Down: A Case Study of the Legal Infrastructure for Water Equality and Affordability
In the absence of a fundamental right to a basic level of drinking water and sanitation in the United States, this article examines the ways in which federal and local civil rights laws provide an alternative legal infrastructure to ensure … Continue reading » “Let Justice Roll Down: A Case Study of the Legal Infrastructure for Water Equality and Affordability”
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Bringing It Home: Human Rights Treaties and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the United States
The article focuses on the effects of human rights on the the social, economic and cultural rights in United States. Topics include the documentation of International Bill of Human rights which led to the formation of International Covenant on Civil … Continue reading » “Bringing It Home: Human Rights Treaties and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the United States”
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Human Rights Advocacy in the United States
This pedagogically innovative book is the first of its kind to focus on human rights advocacy in the United States, illuminating a range of important theoretical and doctrinal issues while equipping students to thoughtfully engage these tools in their own … Continue reading » “Human Rights Advocacy in the United States”
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