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From Religious Populism to Civil Religion: a Discourse Analysis of Bolsonaro’s and Lula’s Inaugural and Victory Speeches
Religion played a major role during the presidential elections in Brazil in 2018 and 2022. Although much has been written about Bolsonaro’s religious...
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Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines
Recognising the rights of nature is seen by many as the paradigm shift needed to truly embed ecology and the environment into nature-based policy and...
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Advancing ocean ecosystem conservation via property rights, rather than marine protected areas (MPAs)
There is demand to protect at-risk fish species and ecosystems. Property rights regimes can be superior to spatial controls via Marine Protected...
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Social Work and Sustainable Development Goals: A Human Rights Common Agenda
The theme for World Social Work Day (WSWD) 2017 focused on “promoting environmental and community sustainability.” The day celebrated and promoted...
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The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction
This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue that discusses the role of civil society in the labour market integration of migrants,...
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The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India
The literature on the electoral legacies of civil war violence offers a puzzle. While one strand of research argues that indiscriminate rebel...
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Human Rights in Chilean Prisons: Advances and Pending Challenges from a Social Work Perspective
Prison conditions and the treatment of incarcerated individuals in Chile have improved a great deal when compared to the end-of-the-dictatorship...
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Exploring the Links Between Corruption and Human Rights Violations with a Focus on the Private Sector
The goals of social work are linked with the realization of universal human rights as essential to a just society. This article explores the links...
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Prisons of Poverty and Politics: How Russian Human Rights Workers Embed Themselves in Middle Class Social Movements
Human rights NGOs contribute to the formation of norms and policies around penality, and inform social understandings of what constitutes acceptable...
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Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison
In recent decades more than one hundred countries have enfranchised their diasporas, allowing emigrants to vote from abroad. However, this widespread...
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Workplace Heterosexism and Well-being: Education, Social Class, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and Human Rights
Human rights advocates work towards the inclusion of people of various identities, including people of diverse LGBTQ+ identities, cultural...
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Press and Civil Society: Alliance and Mistrust in Mexican Transition
Journalism and civil society are two fundamental actors in processes of democratic transition. Twenty years after the first alternation of federal...
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Beyond the “NGOization” of Civil Society: A Framework for Sustainable Community Led Development in Conflict Settings
In this study, we aim to investigate the much shrouded and problematic role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in conflict settings. We argue that...
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Responding to civil war: fisheries as a safety net and lootable resource on Lake Tanganyika, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Research on conflict and fisheries has largely focused on conflict between resource users, rather than on how fisheries are affected by external...
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A Framework to Assess and Monitor Human Rights to Water and Sanitation at the Municipal Scale: A Study case in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region
With the aim of contributing to the development of indicators for the evaluation and monitoring of the realization of the Human Rights to Water and...
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International human rights standards versus cultural practices: a case against harmful cultural practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific reference to FGM
One of the major limitations of the cultural relativist contention is its property to rank group rights above and beyond individual rights. This...
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From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace
Growing social inequalities represent a major concern associated with the Digital Revolution. The article tackles this issue by exploring how welfare...
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Morality and Civil Society
Morality is central to the theories and practices of civil society but remains a controversial point for critics who question the boundary between...
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Sha** Civil Society Leaders: Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes
Civil society leadership training programmes are a new phenomenon, and they are often overlooked by civil society scholarship despite being linked to...
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The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights
There has been an increase of academic publications that argue in favor of ‘majority rights,’ ‘majority precedence,’ or ‘white identity,’ claiming...