This text explores how interactive broadcast media, particularly in Africa, reshapes political communication by involving audiences in radio and TV shows. It examines how the uncertain nature of…
While the rise of ICTs has certainly created new opportunities for human rights practitioners, it has also created new risks – which are silencing, and unequally so.
The UN is often questioned about its ongoing relevance and involvement in peace and security, but its involvement in higher education for peace is rarely examined.
National commissions of inquiry are often set up by governments after crises or human rights violations to investigate events and identify those affected. Supporters see them as flexible…
The visibility of human rights advocacy depends on the logics of the social media field, the target audience fields, and the political field(s) across which communication takes place.
We outline the implications of information and communication technologies for the United Nations’ practices to protect and promote human rights.
By building their credibility as sources — through interpersonal relationships with journalists, through authority with human rights leaders, and through associations with NGO networks — human rights NGOs…
CGHR welcomed a Wellcome Trust project on health and technology. It has also seen the development of Ella McPherson’s work on Human Rights in the Digital Age.
Produced with support from the Oak Foundation, this report details technologies used for human rights documentation and addresses the challenges human rights documentation initiatives face.
We have access to more relevant data today than ever before. But integrating data collection and management into the work of human rights research can be challenging.
This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective.
