07/05/2008 - Human Rights Ahead (HRA) partners with the University of Antwerp07/05/2008 - Human Rights Ahead (HRA) partners with the University of Antwerp and a network of academic centers and local NGOs to implement a worldwide case study examining how localization of global human rights occurs in local communities in response to the impact of economic globalization in their lives.HRA will be the methodological advisor to the project applying a methodology developed by Steering Committee member Gaby Oré Aguilar ("The Local Relevance of Human Rights: A Methodological Approach")Download (PDF- 432KB)
Posted Jan 5, 2012 8:16 AM by JESUS MARIA Quirce
01/02/10 "2010: global cracks, human prospects"2010: global cracks, human prospects2 January 2010OpenDemocracy deputy editor David Hayes,asked openDemocracy writers to reflect on the decade that has passed and the one that lies ahead by considering three questions:1) What was the most significant trend in the century"s first decade?2) What do you most hope for, and most fear, about the decade to come?3) What idea do you see fading and/or emerging in 2010 and beyond?Gaby Oré Aguilar respond to these questions from an international law and justice approach: 1) What was the most significant trend in the century"s first decade?The first decade of this century was meant to be one of consolidation of the great advances ...
Posted Dec 20, 2011 9:11 AM by JESUS MARIA Quirce
05/ 05/09 Alicia E. Yamin, honored for her work on maternal mortality
Alicia E. Yamin, honored for her work on maternal mortality
05/ 05/09 Alicia E. Yamin, a member of our Steering Committee, was an honoree in the Third edition of the Smart Cookie Award held last April 20 in New York City. This award recognized Alicia’s sustained work on maternal mortality and her support to Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity Campaign in this area.
You can watch this video highlighting her work as special advisor to AI’s campaign Demanding Dignity,
Congratulations Alicia!
Posted Jan 5, 2012 8:26 AM by JESUS MARIA Quirce
01/30/09 - Images of Miró works on the HRA website.01/30/09 - In the year of the 25th anniversary of the death of Joan Miró (1893-1983), an artist committed to the fight for human liberty, Succession Miro has authorised Human Rights Ahead to publish a selection of images of his work to accompany the contents of this website over the course of 2009.It has been said of Miró that he was an artist who “was born in the 19th century, painted in the 20th century and is the painter of the 21st century”. His commitment to the cause of the Republic during the Civil War led him to collaborate, together with Picasso, on the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, and to ...
Posted Dec 20, 2011 8:55 AM by JESUS MARIA Quirce
11/20/09 Thinking AheadThinking Ahead 11/20/09 We exist to generate and facilitate dialogue and reflection on existing and upcoming challenges for the human rights agenda and to advance strategic advocacy to confront them. To do so, we provide a forum for innovative voices in the human rights field. HRA and the University of Deusto are inviting papers to be submitted for publication in 2009. (CLOSED)Read more
Posted Dec 20, 2011 8:52 AM by JESUS MARIA Quirce
