Julia Planitzer publishes in the most recent issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR) an article on obligatory reporting by corporations and its potential to prevent trafficking in human beings.
This publication inreases the awareness of possible discriminations in schoolbooks. It helps teachers, students and schoolbook editors how to check the content and pictures.
"Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limtis of Privitization" examines the application of neoliberal policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by outsourcing to the private sector many services with a direct impact on humna rights, abdicate their responsibilities to uphold human rights and violate international law.
Hannes Tretter has published an article about "Freedom of speech and Hate speech" on the "social media" related newsletter of GIT Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik im OVE. This article is attached to this post. The newletter is also available to all who are interested here.
Anti-discrimination is anchored in the constitution of the South East European (SEE) countries and is expressed in their substantive law. SEE countries are faced to reaffirm the strong focus on the principle of "fundamentals first" and to prioritise reforms in the key areas of rule of law, including fighting discrimination. Nevertheless the enforcement of anti-discrimination legislation in practice in SEE countries is not on satisfactory level due to many complex reasons behind.
The Summer Games 2016 are about to start: Between 5. and 21 August respectively 7 to 18 September the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in Rio de Janeiro.
The study, which was funded via the Call4Europe initiative of the crowdfunding platform respekt.net, provides an overview of the international obligation to protect, an analysis of the EU asylum acquis and its deficiencies from a human rights perspective, presents current proposals for change and seeks to provide recommendations for steps towards a new asylum policy in and for Europe. Driven by a rights‘ based approach the study has intends to provide a counterbalance to the predominant discourse about irregular migration and asylum abuse.