Everyday Human Rights

"I bought you like I bought my goats" Hadijatou Mani’s journey from being sold at twelve to a landmark ruling against her country

“I Don’t Date Girls That Are Into Deforestation” How Greenpeace used Barbie’s love life to take on deforestation

Hunger Is Made by People World Food Day and why hunger depends on access more than supply

Waking a Sleeping Beauty Guo Jianmei helped Chinese women access the rights they already had https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/waking-a-sleeping-beauty

When the Harm Leaves the Classroom When the Harm Becomes Digital and Spreads Out of Control

Neutral was Never an Option How Desmond Tutu sided against injustice without losing the humanity in the oppressor

From the Sports Field to the Constitutional Court How Irene Grootboom and 900 other evicted people redefined the right to housing

We now have as many subscribers as UN members! Who's going to push us to 194!? everydayhumanrights.substack.com

Not Guaranteed but Still Worth It What does the International Day of Non-Violence mean in a year of record conflict?

Lost in Translation? The impressive work that carries rights across languages

Turning Domestic Violence Into a Crime Against the Public How Mozambique took the burden from women in prosecuting offenders

The Original Twelve Amendments Two didn't make the cut. The rest became America’s Bill of Rights.

300 Languages You’ve Never Heard – or Heard of Happy International Day of Sign Languages! 👐

We are stunned and ecstatic with the level of support we’ve seen. As of today, we hit 150 subscribers! Even more exiting is all the comments and conversations we’ve had recently. If this interests you, then join us either through email or on Substack: everydayhumanrights.substack.com

The Right to Have Rights Hannah Arendt named what statelessness takes away because it had been taken from her https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-right-to-have-rights

When a State Steals the Life You Could’ve had How Loayza Tamayo v Peru made courts consider what someone who is wrongly imprisoned loses

Shutting Down a Nation of 1.4 Billion People How Dalits refused to allow India’s Atrocities Act to be watered down

How Do You Turn Your People from Subjects Into Citizens? Phan Châu Trinh’s use of the principles of the colonizer to free Vietnam

Is Big Brother Watching You? How Klass and Others v Germany established a right to challenge a spy you can’t see

The Blogger Who Couldn't Read Her Own Blog Yoani Sánchez wrote a blog receiving millions of visits, and Cuba blocked her for it

When a Country Gave Women Rights Most of the Region Still Lacks How the Personal Status Code made Tunisia a positive outlier

Available, Accessible, Acceptable, and Good Quality How General Comment 14 showed what the right to health protects

5,000 Indigenous Cultures The value of self-identification and the price of protecting one’s land on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

The Survivor who Became the Law Maria da Penha inspiring Brazil’s law against domestic violence

From Activism to Success and once again to Activism The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

You Can't Outsource an Execution How Judge v. Canada forced the Human Rights Committee to overturn its own precedent on the right to life

Metadata, Before It Had a Name The impact of the 1984 case of Malone v. United Kingdom on privacy in the digital age

No Body, No Proof, No Case? How the case of Velásquez Rodriguez flipped State’s concealment of abuse against them

The Hardest Eighty-Three Steps to Climb The fight for, and the success that is, the US Americans with Disabilities Act

She Never Knew Her Most Famous Words Emma Lazarus, the Statue of Liberty, and a life spent arguing for refuge https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/she-never-knew-her-most-famous-words

What if Human Rights are not Enough? When justice for all stops being a utopia

Not Just Members of This or That Nation The Russell-Einstein Manifesto showed some threats were everyone's problem

Liberty of Conscience, Written Into Law Rhode Island's Royal Charter and its unlikely list of firsts

Re-Anchoring Human Rights How Soering v. United Kingdom shifted the lens of human rights obligations

“We hold these truths…” The US Declaration of Independence turns 250!

High Standards, not to Protect but to Stifle The case of Herrera Ulloa v Costa Rica

Never Again, at Home How Germany judges genocide

If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice (at Least Among Workers) The International Labour Organization and the workers’ seat at the table

Unwritten Law From a general practice to being binding, and how human rights took advantage of it https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/unwritten-law

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The Words Before The Violence International Day for Countering Hate Speech: the blurry line dividing legitimate speech from hate

Pushing Back the Desert, One Tree at a Time Shining a light on the Great Green Wall on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

The Prison Built Outside the Law Deciding that even detainees at Guantánamo have constitutional rights https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-prison-built-outside-the-law

Guilt by Spectral Evidence How the Salem witch trials reversed the presumption of innocence

“No Way – It's Ours” Ending the legal fiction that justified Australian colonization

The Founding Mothers of Modern-Day Italy When 12 million women voted on their country’s future

Parents, Children, and the State The triangle of rights at the heart of family law, and the support gap it doesn’t close everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/parents-ch...

"I am a Woman's Rights" From slave to national activist: the most famous speech of Sojourner Truth https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/i-am-a-womans-rights

Write for Rights The newspaper article that lit the candle of Amnesty International https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/write-for-rights

One of Human Rights’ Greatest Successes: From 750 Million to 2 Million Decolonization, self-determination, and the 17 territories still waiting for both https://everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/one-of-human-rights-greatest-successes