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The determinants of citizens’ perceptions of land security and property rights in Nigeria
This paper examines the determinants of property protection in Nigeria. Using data from Prindex on 2913 respondents from urban and rural Nigeria, we...
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CSO Advocacy and Managing Risk in Hybrid Regimes: An Exploration of Human Rights Organizations in Colombia
The following study examined advocacy strategies of human rights CSOs in Colombia; how they defended and expanded civic space for vulnerable...
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Human Rights–Based Social Work and the Natural Environment: Time for New Perspectives
The natural environment and sustainability play an increasingly important role in social work as a discipline and profession. This is often described...
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Disability Rights Advocacy in China: Inclusive Education, Civil Society, and Mobilizing Ideas
This chapter examines the impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the human rights model of disability...
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Reducing Child Trafficking in India: The Role of Human Rights Education and Social Work Practice
Child trafficking is one of the cruelest crimes that could ever be committed. Not only is it a criminal offense throughout the world but it is also a...
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Stakeholders Perspectives on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Abia and Imo States, Southeast Nigeria: A Multi-sectorial Approach
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol were adopted in 2006 and came into force in 2008 as a medium...
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Civil Society and Populism
The study describes the varied yet nebulous nature of the term civil society (CS) and its relat usage by populist discourses. The preliminary...
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The Old and the Young: Configurational Niches Amongst Dutch Climate Civil Society Organisations
Media reporting and academic research into young climate civil society organisations (CSOs) often focus on organisations using direct,...
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The opportunities and limits of Islamist ideological developments on the rights of non-Muslims and women
Most academic scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist organisations seem to agree that these groups have come to accept the...
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Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on right-wing populists’ constructions of German collective identity. In their “Covid-19...
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Devaluation of Labour Rights: An Empirical Perspective on Increasing Contractualisation of Work in India’s Manufacturing Sector
There is increasing contractual hiring since the economic reforms of 1991 which led to the subsequent vague implementation of labour laws in...
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Monitoring and Indicators of Disability Rights: Introduction
This introduction offers a brief overview of the key challenges that the stakeholders involved in the monitoring of the implementation of the UN...
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Exploring Gendered Monitoring and Evaluation of the Social Protection System in Angola: A Rights-Based Perspective
Nearly two decades after the intermittent but protracted civil war in Angola, the country is still recovering from some of the long-term adverse...
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Civil Society Elites: An Introduction
This chapter explores the gap in civil society and elite studies. Researchers have recently observed elitist tendencies in civil society in which...
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A Spectrum of Rights
In a momentous legal journey, the battle for LGBTQIA+ rights in India has traversed a long road shaped by landmark judicial pronouncements, evolving...
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Datafying African Agriculture: From Data Governance to Farmers’ Rights
This article explores the impact of digital agricultural technologies on African agricultural systems. As we describe, the datafication of African...
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Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in Kenya
In recent years, many develo** countries implemented inheritance rights reforms, aimed at abolishing any forms of gender discrimination in the...
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Social Constructivist and Rights-Based Analysis of Global Governance of Statelessness: The Case of the Rohingya Crisis
In Myanmar (formerly Burma), there is a long history of human rights violation against the Rohingya, an ethnic minority, predominately Muslim and...