Essays

Public Policies from a Human Rights Perspective - Essays

• A Developing Field •

Daniel Vázquez, Domitille Delaplace | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Human Rights Education in Communities Recovering from Major Social Crisis - Essays

• Lessons for Haiti •

J. Paul Martin | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Analysis of Article 33 of the UN Convention - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• The Critical Importance of National Implementation and Monitoring •

Luis Fernando Astorga Gatjens | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Reasonable Accommodation - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• The New Concept from an Inclusive Constitutional Perspective •

Letícia de Campos Velho Martel | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Negotiating Sexuality in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Marta Schaaf | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• Progress after 5 Years •

Tobias Pieter van Reenen, Heléne Combrinck | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

The Open Door - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• Five Foundational Films That Seeded the Representation of Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities •

Peter Lucas | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Interview with Luis Gallegos Chiriboga - SUR file on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• President (2002-2005) of the Ad Hoc Committee that Drew Up the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities •

| SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

Between Reparations, Half Truths and Impunity - Essays

• The Difficult Break with the Legacy of the Dictatorship in Brazil •

Glenda Mezarobba | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

Armed Forces, Truth Commission and Transitional Justice in Peru - Essays

Gerardo Arce Arce | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

Urgent Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Felipe González | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

The Restriction of Military Jurisdiction in International Human Rights Protection Systems - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Silvano Cantú | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

The Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

• The Potential for Synergy or Inertia? •

Debra Long, Lukas Muntingh | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

The Role of Sub-Regional Courts in the African Human Rights System - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Lucyline Nkatha Murungi, Jacqui Gallinetti | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

Interpreting Regional Human Rights Treaties - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Magnus Killander | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

Cooperation Between the Universal and Inter-American Human Rights Systems in the Framework of the Universal Periodical Review Mechanism - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Antonio M. Cisneros de Alencar | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

Kevin Boyle – Strong Link in the Chain - In Memoriam

• IN MEMORIAM •

Borislav Petranov | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

The Effectiveness of the Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection - Essays

• A Quantitative Approach to its Functioning and Compliance With its Decisions •

Fernando Basch, Leonardo Filippini, Ana Laya, Mariano Nino, Felicitas Rossi, Bárbara Schreiber | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

The Commonwealth of Nations - Essays

• Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Strategies for the Protection of Human Rights in a Post-colonial Association •

Richard Bourne | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Combating Exclusion - SUR file on Millennium Development Goals

• Why Human Rights Are Essential for the MDGs •

Amnesty International | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Reflections on the Role of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals - SUR file on Millennium Development Goals

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Toward Transformative Accountability - SUR file on Millennium Development Goals

• Applying a Rights-based Approach to Fulfill Maternal Health Obligations •

Alicia Ely Yamin | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Millennium Development Goal 6 and the Right to Health - SUR file on Millennium Development Goals

• Conflictual or Complementary? •

Sarah Zaidi | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Climate Change and the Millennium Development Goals - SUR file on Millennium Development Goals

• The Right to Development, International Cooperation and the Clean Development Mechanism •

Marcos A. Orellana | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Aliens, Apartheid and US Courts - Corporate Accountability

• Is the Right of Apartheid Victims to Claim Reparations from Multinational Corporations at last Recognized? •

Lindiwe Knutson | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

The Ruggie Framework - Corporate Accountability

• An Adequate Rubric for Corporate Human Rights Obligations? •

David Bilchitz | SUR N.12 | Jun/2010

Interview with Rindai Chipfunde-Vava - International Human Rights Colloquium

• Director of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) •

Rindai Chipfunde-Vava | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

From massive violations to structural patterns - Essays

• new approaches and classic tensions in the inter-american human rights system •

Víctor Abramovich | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Tensions of human dignity - Essays

• conceptualization and application to International Human Rights Law •

Viviana Bohórquez Monsalve, Javier Aguirre Román | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Disability, Human Rights and Justice - Essays

Debora Diniz, Lívia Barbosa, Wederson Rufino dos Santos | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Love in the time of cholera - Essays

• LGBT rights in Colombia •

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Domestic adjudication and Economical, Social and Cultural Rights - SUR file on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• a socio-legal review •

Malcolm Langford | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

The Case of the Mislaid Allocation - SUR file on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Economic and Social Rights and Budget Work •

Ann Blyberg | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Trade, Investment, Finance and Human Rights - SUR file on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Assessment and Strategy Paper •

Aldo Caliari | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Business and Human Rights - SUR file on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• the struggle for accountability in the UN and the future direction of the advocacy agenda •

Patricia Feeney | SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

Report on the IX International Human Rights Colloquium - International Human Rights Colloquium

• By Conectas Human Rights •

| SUR N.11 | Dec/2009

“Very wicked children” - Essays

• “Indian torture” and the Madras Torture •

Anuj Bhuwania | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Rape characterised as genocide - Essays

Daniela de Vito, Aisha Gill, Damien Short | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Notes on the implementation by Latin American courts of the ILO Convention 169 on indigenous peoples - Essays

Christian Courtis | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Intercountry adoption as a measure of last resort in Africa - Essays

• Advancing the rights of a child rather than a right to a child •

Benyam D. Mezmur | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Responding to “mixed” migration flows - SUR file on Human Rights Of People On The Move: Migrants And Refugees

• A humanitarian perspective •

Katharine Derderian, Liesbeth Schockaert | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

The legitimate security interests of the State and international - SUR file on Human Rights Of People On The Move: Migrants And Refugees

Juan Carlos Murillo | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

International cooperation and internal displacement in Colombia - SUR file on Human Rights Of People On The Move: Migrants And Refugees

• Facing the challenges of the largest humanitarian crisis in South America •

Manuela Trindad Viana | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Access to antiretroviral treatment for migrant populations - SUR file on Human Rights Of People On The Move: Migrants And Refugees

Joseph Amon, Katherine Todrys | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

European migration control in the African territory - SUR file on Human Rights Of People On The Move: Migrants And Refugees

• The omission of the extraterritorial character of human rights obligations •

Pablo Ceriani Cernadas | SUR N.10 | Jan/2009

Perpetrating Good - Essays

• Unintended Consequences of International Human Rights Advocacy •

Barbora Bukovská | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Prisons in Africa - Essays

• An evaluation from a human rights perspective •

Jeremy Sarkin | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Lost in Translation - Essays

• Expressions of Human Suffering, the Language of Human Rights, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission •

Rebecca Saunders | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• navigating the contradictions •

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Poverty and human rights from rhetoric to legal obligations - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• a critical account of conceptual frameworks •

Fernanda Doz Costa | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

A new frontier in economic and social rights advocacy? - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Turning quantitative data into a tool for human rights accountability •

Eitan Felner | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

From Commission to Council - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• has the United Nations succeeded in creating a credible human rights body? •

Katherine Short | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Interview with Anthony Romero, Executive Director of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Anthony Romero | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

Access to medical treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS - SUR file on Right to health and access to medicaments

• success without victory in Chile •

Jorge Contesse, Domingo Lovera Parmo | SUR N.8 | Jan/2008

Human Rights for all: from the struggle against authoritarianism to the construction of an all-inclusive democracy - Essays

• a view from the Southern Cone and Andean Region •

Martín Abregú | SUR N.8 | Jan/2008