Collective & Developmental Rights – Journalists for Human Rights

29 Nov

Water under Occupation: How Water Management Shapes the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Jules PissembonCivil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights, Middle East, Newspaper, Rights

Hydropolitics at the Core of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Examination of Water Control The recent escalation of violence in the Middle East highlights the enduring complexity of the regional situation, rooted in nearly 75 years of tumultuous history. While this article does […]

14 Feb

The Problem with the COP26

Talia PirschCollective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper, Social & Economic Rights

From October 31st to November 12th of this year, over 190 world leaders and close to 40,000 delegates gathered in Glasgow UK for the COP26 (the 26th UN Climate Change […]

25 Nov

Your Internet Privacy and What’s at Stake: The Weaponization of the Digital World

Sarina MacleodCivil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper

With the recent shift to an almost entirely digitized world, algorithms are drastically changing the way we use the internet, or more accurately, how the internet uses us. Before, planning […]

17 Nov

Social Media: A Human Rights Issue?

Camille DeslongchampsCivil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper

My parents have warned me countless times about the dangers of social media. I had to beg them to allow me to download Instagram and Snapchat, even (embarrassingly) creating powerpoints […]

04 Nov

Misgendering: A Human Rights Violation in Canada

Talia PirschCollective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper, The Americas

On September 29th, 2021, the British Colombia Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the intentional misgendering of a person in the workplace consists of a human rights violation. After a heated […]

04 Nov

The Humanitarian Plight of the Uyghur Minority

Haajar Khalid Abu IsmaliAsia, Civil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper, Social & Economic Rights

The Uyghur community in Xinjiang, China has been subject to horrific human rights violations. Forced sterilization, torture, sexual abuse, and cultural genocide are a handful of the crimes this minority […]

08 Jun

Key Forces Behind China’s Uyghur Detention Camps: Why we repeatedly feel powerless in the face of catastrophe

Derya Ekin2020 – 2021, Asia, Civil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights

According to experts and US government officials, since April 2017, between 800,000 to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslims, including ethnic Kazakhs and Uzbeks, have been detained in high security […]

05 May

Canada, It’s Time to Really Step Up Against the Uyghur Genocide

Mackenzie Birbrager2020 – 2021, Asia, Civil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights

The systematic genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group in the East Turkestan region (known in China as Xinjiang province) is not new news. The earliest known Chinese government document which […]

25 Mar

Ecocriticism: Conservation in East Africa

Sophie Crawford2020 – 2021, Africa, Collective & Developmental Rights, Social & Economic Rights

The following piece of writing is an essay on ecocriticism adapted by the author from McGill’s student journal, Environmentalist Movements in the Global North and Global South – Roots, Character, […]

17 Mar

The War for Water: The Barriers to Clean Drinking Water for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Sophie Sklar2020 – 2021, Collective & Developmental Rights, Editors' Picks, Social & Economic Rights, The Americas

Access to clean drinking water is not represented equally across Canada, with those living on Indigenous reservations being disproportionately affected by a lack of quality water infrastructure compared to the […]