02. Research and Projects Outputs

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    The Cyber Occupation of Palestine; Suppressing Digital Activism and Shrinking the Virtual Sphere
    (Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020) Taha, Suhail
    Since the October 2015 uprising, the Israeli regime has intensified its prosecution of Palestinian digital users. Hundreds of Palestinians were arrested under the pretext of ‘incitement’ over social media platforms, particularly journalists, human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, artists and students. As alternative ‘public spheres’ for digital protests, social media platforms have had a significant impact on promoting human rights and exposing violations. The Israeli repressive policy against Palestinian digital rights has narrowed the online sphere censoring the right to express and speech; thus, shifting the role of these digital platforms from a tool to strengthen freedom of expression and rights to open arenas for prosecution and suppression. This policy brief argues that social media companies are complicit in facilitating the Israeli occupation violations of Palestinian digital rights through restricting their rights to freedom of expression, thought and privacy. It shows that Facebook has been censoring Palestinian content based on Israeli regulations since 2015. The policy brief outlines the major challenges pertaining to the protection of Palestinian digital rights in the context of the current repressive policies undertaken by the Israeli occupation and highlights the key repercussions and impact of neglecting abuses of Palestinian digital rights. It underlines the importance of digitalisation for the proper protection and promotion of human rights. Furthermore, it proposes a set of recommendations aimed at adopting a human rights-based approach to digitalisation and guaranteeing protection to safeguard Palestinians’ rights to freedom of expression and public participation in the virtual sphere. The policy paper suggests that social media companies must commit to their transnational human rights obligations and refrain from being complicit with violating Palestinian digital rights through ceasing their collaboration with the Israeli regime. On the contrary, they have a responsibility to ensure a safe and protected digital environment for Palestinian HRDs and activists over social media platforms.
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    Women Human Rights Defenders in a New Social and Political Reality of Armenia: Active in the Margins, Unprotected in the Core
    (Global Campus of Human Rights, 2019) Hovhannisyan, Siran ; Shahnazaryan, Gohar
    Women human rights defenders stand up for women’s rights and gender equality, they see and believe in the importance of being vocal for those women and girls around the world that are somehow deprived from the opportunity to speak for themselves. This policy paper addresses women’s and gender issues in Armenia, and especially the ways women human rights defenders react and respond to gender-based injustices. Recent experiences demonstrated that women human rights defenders and activists are significant actors in the women’s movement in Armenia that has tried to establish the climate of equality in the Armenian society for more than a century. With this policy brief we highlight the importance of the work of women human rights defenders in Armenia especially in the new political and social realities in the country which, despite the fact of the revolution, are still to be transformed from complex gender perspectives. We argue that although Armenia is undergoing major political, social and economic changes and, hopefully, developments, there is evidently a need to point out some field-specific important aspects that the state and other stakeholders should consider in their works and co-operations. This policy brief also addresses the issue of safety of women human rights defenders and gives recommendations to different stakeholders/ parties in decision-making.
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    Youth Activism and Climate Change in Latin America: Indigenous and Peasant Youth in Defence of their Human Rights and Territories
    (Global Campus of Human Rights, 2021) Wahren, Juan
    The objective of this policy brief is to generate public policy recommendations on the role of indigenous and peasant youth in the defence of their human rights, their territories and the actions they are carrying out to mitigate climate change in Latin America. Indeed, indigenous and peasant youth in Latin America are currently expressing a renewal in the leadership of rural social organisations, they are leading a large part of the mobilisations in defence of their territories, the environment and climate change actions, and they are the ones who have most successfully adapted to the use of new informational technologies. For this reason, it is indigenous and peasant youth who can best assume the role of spokespersons and build bridges between academic knowledge and the traditional knowledge of these peoples and communities in order to find concrete solutions to the regional and global environmental and climate change crisis. The current Latin American context is characterised by the global climate crisis, the advance of extractive activities and territorial disputes over natural resources. In this scenario, young people emerge as strategic actors in activism in defence of the environment and territories that are threatened by extractive activities. They are the social actors that can change the relationship between societies and nature for future generations in order to mitigate the climate change process. Therefore, it is important to promote the participation of indigenous and rural youth on the debates regarding climate change and environmental issues at local, regional, national and global levels.