Essays

Social Movements and the Constitutional Court - Essays

• Legal Recognition of the Rights of Same-Sex Couples in Colombia •

Mauricio Albarracín Caballero | SUR N.14 | Jan/2011

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Legal recognition of sexual rights - Essays

• a comparative analysis with reproductive rights •

Laura Davis Mattar | SUR N.8 | Jan/2008

Constructing a new Human Rights lexicon - Essays

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities •

Amita Dhanda | SUR N.8 | Jan/2008

The virtue of following: the role of Inter-American litigation in campaigns for social justice - Essays

James L. Cavallaro, Stephanie Erin Brewer | SUR N.8 | Jan/2008

Transnational Legal activism and the State - Essays

• reflections on cases against Brazil in the Inter-American Comission on Human Rights •

Cecília Macdowell Santos | SUR N.7 | Jan/2007

The role of NGOs in the UN Human Rights Council - Essays

Lucia Nader | SUR N.7 | Jan/2007

The Rule of Law in India - Essays

Upendra Baxi | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Inequality and the subversion of the Rule of Law - Essays

Oscar Vilhena Vieira | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Judicialization of politics in Colombia - Essays

• cases, merits and risks •

Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Is there equality in inequality? - Essays

• Scope and limits of affirmative actions •

Laura Pautassi | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Intermediary services for child witnesses testifying in South African criminal courts - Essays

Gert Jonker, Rika Swanzen | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Brazilian copyright law and how it restricts the efficiency of the human right to education - Essays

Sergio Branco | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Eradicating systemic poverty - Essays

• brief for a Global Resources Dividend •

Thomas W. Pogge | SUR N.6 | Ene/2007

Overpromised, underlivered - Essays

• transitional justice in sub-saharan africa •

Lydiah Kemunto Bosire | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

Public security polices in brazil - Essays

• attempts to modernize and democratize versus the war on crime •

Ignacio Cano | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

The right to cultural identity of indigenous peoples and national minorities - Essays

• a look from the inter-american system •

Oswaldo Ruiz Chiriboga | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

The role of victims in international criminal court proceedings - Essays

• their rights and the first rulings of the court •

Paulina Vega González | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

Toward an effective international legal order - Essays

• from co-existence to concert? •

Tom Farer | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

Lights and shadows of the new united nations human rights council - Essays

Carlos Villan Duran | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

Strengthening domocratic policing and accountability in the commonwealth pacific - Essays

Devika Prasad | SUR N.5 | Ene/2006

The strengths of different traditions - Essays

• What can be gained and what might be lost by combining rights and development? •

Robert Archer | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

A schematic comparison of regional human rights systems - Essays

• An update •

Christof Heyns, David Padilla, Leo Zwaak | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Recent advances in the justiciability of indigenous rights in the Inter-American System of Human Rights - Essays

Mario Melo | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Pharmaceutical corporations and access to drugs indeveloping countries - Essays

• The way forward •

Justice C. Nwobike | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Social programs from a human rights perspective - Essays

• The case of the Lula administration’s family grant in Brazil •

Clóvis Roberto Zimmermann | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Indigenous peoples versus oil companies - Essays

• Constitutional control within resistance •

Isabela Figueroa | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

The measurement challenge in human rights - Essays

Fernande Raine | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Development and rights revisited - Essays

• Lessons from Africa •

J. Paul Martin | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Brief observations on the mechanisms for NGO participation in the WTO - Essays

Michelle Ratton Sanchez | SUR N.4 | Jan/2006

Trips agreement and access to drugs in developing countries - Essays

Carlos M. Correa | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Access to Justice and Human Rights Protection in Nigeria - Essays

• Problems and Prospects •

Nlerum S. Okogbule | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Eddie Mabo and Namibia - Essays

• Land Reform and Pre-Colonial Land Rights •

Nico Horn | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Plan of Action Submitted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Essays

Louise Arbour | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Evidential Issues before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - Essays

Alberto Bovino | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Security, Human Security and Latin America - Essays

Bernardo Sorj | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Human Rights and Justiciability - Essays

• A Survey Conducted in Rio de Janeiro •

José Ricardo Cunha | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005

Reopening of Trials for Crimes Committed by the Argentine Military Dictatorship - Essays

María José Guembe | SUR N.3 | Jan/2005