REIMAGINING THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS - 1.ª ED. 2022

Introduction: Human Rights Have a Future lo

Chapter 1
The Dark Cloud and Lack of Air

Chapter 2
Venezuela's judiciary under the "Bolivarian Revolution"

Chapter 3
The Advent of Philosopher-Judges as an Alternative Form of Democratic Expression

Chapter 4
"We, Used to Have Clean Water": The Fishers of Juá and the Challenge for Human Rights

Chapter 5
Notions of the "Sacred": A Tale of Two Cases of the Right to Nature in India

Chapter 6 "I Go to the Toilet and the Crap Disappears"

Chapter 7
Sitting by the River and Washing Your Hands with Spittle: The Story of Informal Miners of Obuasi

Chapter 8
Human Rights Has a Case of COVID-19

Chapter 9
Operation Hurricane: Digital Surveillance Aimed at Criminalizing the Mapuche Cause

Chapter 10
Bakur: Chronicles of Unrealized Futures

Chapter 11
Tolls of Victims, Zero Accountability

Chapter 12
Tagged for Slaughter: To Be a Human Rights Worker under a Dictatorship

This book is the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia's annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates. The talented writers featured here are graduates from previous workshops who came together again in 2018 to explore the intersection between research and activism and what it holds for the future of human rights.

The authors in this book question traditional methods and explore new ways and visions of advancing human rights in the troubled context in which we live today.

Do the struggles of small-scale miners in Ghana, the use of strategic litigation in Lebanon, and the recognition of the rights of nature In India represent evidence for hope? Or is the opposite true, and, as shown in the chapters on martial law In the Philippines, the treatment of wastewater in Argentina, and in the internal conflict in Yemen, human rights have failed to deliver on their promises?
Whatever the answer, Reimagining the Future of Human lights invites us to reflect on the work of human rights in different contexts and the challenges that activists face, but also the progress they have made. The chapters in this book offer a snapshot of the current state of human rights that can help guide our work as activists and researchers.