Letter to the Readers

Sur 33 – Letter to the Readers - Letter to the Readers

SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Re-enchanting Human Rights - Essays

• “New, and as yet untested, political instruments can revitalize our rational desire, our combative joy, and our capacity to re-enchant the world by summoning and mobilizing the living forces of our society.” •

Sueli Carneiro | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

The Editor - In Memoriam

• Sur bids farewell to Pedro Paulo Poppovic, a role model for those who remain committed to building a better future. •

Oscar Vilhena Vieira | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

The question of Palestine - Articles

• Overcoming Israeli exceptionalism and the two-state solution rhetoric by adopting a decolonial approach •

Nada Awad | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

The impact of social media and the rise of far-right extremism in South Africa - Articles

• Overlapping interests between political power and Big Tech’s economic influence and the regulatory challenges in addressing hate speech and disinformation •

Sherylle Dass, Yanela Frans | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Resistance posters - Images

SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Democracy hanging by a thread: resistance and reconstruction in Brazil post-Bolsonaro - Articles

• Notes on the rise of the far right and authoritarianism in Brazil and the role of civil society in dark times. •

Camila Asano, Julia Neiva | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

“We must refuse, challenge and resist this psychological state of survival” - Interview

• Defenders on trial •

Hossam Bahgat | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Notes on the far right in the South - Articles

• Argentina’s authoritarian turn: origins, crisis situations and human rights strategies •

Paula Litvachky, Gabriela Mitidieri, Vanina Escales | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

“Human rights have lost their magnetism and their power to electrify people.” - Interview

• Defenders on trial •

Haris Azhar | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Digital disquiet in the Silicon Savannah - Articles

• How online activists are fighting for political accountability in the face of digital authoritarianism in Kenya •

Leah Kimathi | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Conservatism, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Climate Crisis - Articles

• The challenges of protecting Indigenous and environmental rights in Brazil •

Maurício Terena, Yuri da Silva Aguiar | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

“We are engaged in a power struggle not politics” - Interview

Suely Araújo | SUR N.33 | Dec/2025

Sur 32 – Letter to the readers - Letter to the readers

SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

Reconstructing symbols, reinventing monuments - Images

SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“To combat disinformation we need to build transnational movements and a transnational solidarity” - Conversations

Otto Saki | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“The goal of visionary fiction is to change the world” - Conversations

Walidah Imarisha | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“Terribly Christian” - Articles

• Foreign policy on human rights under the Bolsonaro administration •

Déborah Silva do Monte, Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

Legal dilemmas related to the restriction of hate speech - Articles

• Discrimination, freedom of expression, and state regulation •

Víctor Abramovich | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

China’s growing influence at the UN Human Rights Council - Articles

• What implications for Latin America and the Global South? •

Raphael Viana David | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“Fixing the roof while the sun is shining.” - Essays

• Securing Organizational Health in the Field of Human Rights •

Akwe Amosu | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

Artificial Intelligence and Online Hate Speech Moderation - Articles

• A Risky Match? •

Natalie Alkiviadou | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

There is good news for institutional development - Essays

Muriel Asseraf | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

2022 and the odyssey to combat misinformation in Brazil - Essays

• Analysis of the informational struggle in the 2022 elections •

Nina Santos | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“We must understand the historical span and longevity of conservative movements” - Conversations

Sonia Corrêa | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“The human rights movement needs to learn from its peers” - Conversations

Carlos Quesada | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

The reconfiguration of power - Essays

• An analysis of human rights, religion and the dispute for democracy in Brazil •

Ronilso Pacheco | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

Filing the stone, washing the flag - Articles

• Notes on the ruining of and dispute over monuments •

Bruno Oliveira | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“We will continue to make progress in strengthening the Commission and in our mission to secure and protect human rights in the region” - Conversations

Tania Reneaum | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“Wash, stitch, wave the flag” - Conversations

• The report of an endless struggle for democracy in Peru •

Claudia Coca | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“We open pathways” - Profile

• The fight for the rights of trans people in Peru •

Miluska Luzquiños | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

“All of us have a role to play and have to defend each other” - Profile

Firuzeh Mahmoudi | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

Sur 31 – Letter to the readers - Letter to the readers

SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

“We need greater transparency and debate on the use of surveillance technology given the enormous negative impact is has on peoples’ lives” - Conversations

• Interview with Derechos Digitales •

Jamila Venturini, Michel Roberto de Souza | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

“In The Pacific, We Take Care of Ourselves” - Conversations

• Pacífico Task Force Alliance and a differential approach to combatting the pandemic in the Colombian Pacific •

Lizeth Sinisterra Ossa | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

The political meaning of privacy and identity - Conversations

• An interview with Usha Ramanathan •

Usha Ramanathan | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Environmental Equity and Racial Justice - Articles

• Natural climate solutions in the Amazon and the Black/Afro-descendant Natural Belt of the Americas •

Luis Gilberto Murillo, Marcela Angel Lalinde | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

The Human Rights of Migrants and Covid-19 - Articles

• The response of UN special procedures and committees •

Felipe González Morales, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Covid-19 and the Constitution - Essays

• A timeline of stories, legal and policy responses and analyses •

Vivek Divan, Gargi Mishra, Disha Verma, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Varsha Aithala, Naomi Jose, Conor McGlynn, Teresa Sebastian, Vaibhav Bhawsar | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Cross in yellow - Images

• Brief reflection on its symbolism during the pandemic •

SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

“Capitalism and the system of patent monopolies were the biggest challenge to the TRIPS waiver” - Interview

• Interview with Fatima Hassan •

Fatima Hassan | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Monitor and fail - Articles

• The impact of the use of eProctoring software on the privacy of university students •

Carlos Germán Guerrero Argote | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Intellectual property and global inequality in the Covid-19 pandemic - Articles

• The struggle for the right to health in times of emergency •

Alan Rossi Silva, Clara Alves Silva, Felipe de Carvalho Borges da Fonseca, Pedro Villardi, Susana Rodrigues Cavalcanti van der Ploeg | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

A tide of hope - Experiences

• Redes da Maré’s response to the pandemic in Rio de Janeiro •

| SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Building pressure for change - Institutional Outlook

• Advocacy and the role of philanthropic funders •

Margarida Lunetta, Ilan Vuddamalay | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

In memory of Tutawa - Essays

• The struggle of the Ãwa people •

Kamutaja Silva Ãwa | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Navigating screens - Articles

• The technopolitics of security, the smart paradigm and gender vigilantism in a data harvesting age •

Mariah Rafaela Silva | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Impact of Covid-19 On The Indigenous Peoples of The Boca da Mata Village in Roraima - Articles

Yara Pinho de Lima | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Voices of women from the favelas - Essays

• Stories from everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro •

Angélica Ferrarez | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

Sur 30 – Letter to the readers - Letter to the readers

SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

I’m a human rights defender. - Essays

• What’s your superpower? •

Ishtar Lakhani | SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

“For me, being a human rights defender is rewarding, but it is also an act of courage” - Essays

• Interview •

Indyra Mendoza | SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

“Being a leader, a woman and indigenous: three challenges, three barriers” - Essays

Angela Amanakwa Kaxuyana | SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

Sewing struggles, narratives and memory - Images

SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

Building peace - Essays

• An interview with the women of North and East Syria’s Women’s House •

Rojava Information Center | SUR N.30 | Aug/2020