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Torture An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

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Torture represents a direct attack on the essence of human dignity. Its mere mention evokes a prolific and sordid history: Europe in the Middle Ages, with beds of nails, witch hunts, and burnings; the brutal methods used by military dictatorships against political dissidents in 1970s Latin America; and the gruesome photographs from Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and other Bush-era places of detention.

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Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism

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While providing a substantive legal analysis of the links between human rights and counter-terrorism, this book provides the tools to successfully argue that a human rights approach does not undermine the fight against terrorism. Through practical examples, it shows that a State’s lack of respect for human rights hinders its fight against terrorism and can be counter-productive. 

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Press Freedom as an International Human Right

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This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory. It argues that an unrestricted press is not just an important economic actor, but also an influential power in the political process, a status that interferes with government interests of sustaining their own power and influence.

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Global Campus Human Rights Journal: second issue now online

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The Global Campus of Human Rights enriches its online publications with the second issue of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal (GCHRJ). Launched in 2017 and already counting on thousands of readers around the world, the GCHRJ keeps serving as a forum for rigorous scholarly analysis, critical commentaries, and reports on recent developments pertaining to human rights and democratisation globally.

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Book Launch Seminar "Human Rights or Global Capitalism, Limits to Privatisation”

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The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law hosts Professor Manfred Nowak to present his new book on "Human Rights or Global Capitalism - The Limits of Privatization"...

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Publication of "Russia and the European Court of Human Rights"

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Why has there been a human rights backlash in Russia despite the country having been part of the European human rights protection system since the late 1990s? To what extent does Russia implement...

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