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Epistemology and its discontents: Working as a psychologist in troubled times
This monograph project outlines the discipline of psychology’s complex relationship with human rights, acknowledging instances of complicity in injustice alongside its potential for liberation.
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Reparations for Victims of Apartheid
In spite of the increasing recognition in international law of the need for reparations for victims of serious human rights violations, the overwhelming majority of victims of Apartheid has not been compensated by the South African government and has not had access to legal avenues for the payment of such reparations.
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Emerging Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights
This project explores the intensification of interest in culture as the basis for new forms of development and the assertion of new rights.
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Handbook of Migration Ethics
Niederberger, A., Okeja, U., & Gördemann, J. (Eds.). 2025. Handbook of Migration Ethics. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10...
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A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
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African Perspectives on Labor Rights as Enhancers of Democratic Governance
Kalula, Evance and Chanda Chungu. 2022. African Perspectives on Labor Rights as Enhancers of Democratic Governance. In The Cambridge Handboo...
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Women awake
LeBaron, Michelle. 2021. Women awake. In Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts (pp. 172–192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97...
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Why Do Authoritarian Regimes in Africa Adopt Women’s Rights Reforms?
The recent authoritarian turn globally raises questions about what happens to women’s rights in such contexts.
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Advancing Equality: How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide
Heymann, Jody, Aleta Sprague and Amy Raub. 2020. Advancing Equality: How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide. University o...
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Freedom of Religion at Stake: Competing Claims among Faith Traditions, States, and Persons
Forster, Dion A., Elisabeth Gerle and Göran Gunner. (Eds.). 2019. Freedom of Religion at Stake: Competing Claims among Faith Traditions, Sta...
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Constitutionalism and the internet in Africa: Progress, challenges and prospects
There is no doubt that significant inroads are made in of information technology in Africa.
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Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Chambers, Brooke B and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Crimin...
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The Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Order for Human Rights
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2020. The Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Order for Human Rights. In Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justi...
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Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion
Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time.
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The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons
The African Union in January 2016 adopted a treaty – the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Older Persons – dealing with the rights of older persons in Africa.
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Human Rights and Penal Policy
Savelsberg, Joachim J. and Suzy McElrath. 2018. Human Rights and Penal Policy. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal J...
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Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2018. “Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies.” In G. Muschert, B. Klocke, R. Perrucci, J. Shefner, K. B...
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Punitive turn and justice cascade: Mutual inspiration from Punishment and Society and human rights literatures
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2018. Punitive turn and justice cascade: Mutual inspiration from Punishment and Society and human rights literatures....
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Human Rights and Social Control
Savelsberg, Joachim J. and Brooke B Chambers. 2019. Human Rights and Social Control. In The Handbook of Social Control (pp. 442–455). Chiche...
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Internationales Strafrecht – Beiträge zum kollektiven Gedächtnis.
Savelsberg, Joachim. J. 2019. “Internationales Strafrecht – Beiträge zum kollektiven Gedächtnis.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Einspruch Magazin. ...
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Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture)
A Chaskalson. 2010. Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture). Journal of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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Dealing with Trauma and Guilt in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Making Public Spaces Intimate
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. 2010. Dealing with Trauma and Guilt in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Making Public Spaces Intimate. Duke Universi...
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The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
John De Gruchy (editor). 2011. The Humanist Imperative in South Africa. SUN MeDIA.
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Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice : rethinking law and poverty in a globalizing world
Nancy Fraser. 2012. Social exclusion, global poverty, and scales of (in)justice : rethinking law and poverty in a globalizing world. Stellen...
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A Survey of International Legal Instruments to Examine Their Effectiveness in Improving Global Health and in Realizing Health Rights
Arthur Wilson and Abdallah S. Daar. 2013. A Survey of International Legal Instruments to Examine Their Effectiveness in Improving Global Hea...
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The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights
Hans Joas. 2013. The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights. Georgetown University Press, 224 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1589019690...
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Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Organ Removal
F Ambagtsheer, M Gunnarson, J de Jong, S Lundin, L van Balen, Z Orr, I Bystrom and W Weimar. 2014. Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpo...
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Human rights and globalisation – Are human rights a “Western” concept or a universalistic principle?
Wolfgang Huber. 2014. Human rights and globalisation – Are human rights a “Western” concept or a universalistic principle? Dutch Reformed Th...
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How Human Rights Shape Social Citizenship: On Citizenship and the Understanding of Economicand Social Rights
Ulrike Davy. 2014. How Human Rights Shape Social Citizenship: On Citizenship and the Understanding of Economicand Social Rights. Washington ...
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Debating love, human rights and identity politics in East Africa: The case of Uganda and Kenya
Oloka-Onyango, Joe. 2015. Debating love, human rights and identity politics in East Africa: The case of Uganda and Kenya. African Human Righ...
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Battling over Human Rights: Twenty Essays on Law, Politics and Governance
Oloka-Onyango, Joe. 2015. Battling over Human Rights: Twenty Essays on Law, Politics and Governance. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG. http://langaa-rp...
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Mediating the ‘Sacredness’ of Religion, Culture and Law in Contexts of Sexual Violence
Nadar, Sarojini and Elisabeth Gerle. 2016. Mediating the ‘Sacredness’ of Religion, Culture and Law in Contexts of Sexual Violence. Agenda 30...
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Categorical Rights and Vulnerable Groups: Moving Away from the Universal Human Being
Bossuyt, Marc. 2016. Categorical Rights and Vulnerable Groups: Moving Away from the Universal Human Being. The George Washington Internation...
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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy
Eze, Chielozona. 2016. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://...
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Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk
Ziervogel, Gina, Mark Pelling, Anton Cartwright, Eric Chu, Tanvi Deshpande, Leila Harris, Keith Hyams, Jean Kaunda, Benjamin Klaus, Kavya Mi...
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The Constitutional Court of South Africa and Affirmative Action
Bossuyt, Marc. 2017. The Constitutional Court of South Africa and Affirmative Action. In la [CVDW]. Liber Amicoorum Chris Van den Wyngaert. ...
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The promise of “well-being” in Section 24 of the Constitution of South Africa
Du Plessis, Anél. 2018. The promise of “well-being” in Section 24 of the Constitution of South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights...
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Confronting Apartheid
Dugard, John. 2018. Confronting Apartheid. Jacana Media. http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/new-releases-65840/confronting-apartheid-de...
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STIAS Series Volume 1: The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
The Humanist Imperative in South Africa John de Gruchy (Editor) SUN PRESS (2011, 200 pp) ISBN: 978-1-920338-56-5 https://doi.org/10.18820/9...
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Migration Vulnerability and Access to Social Protection
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
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South Africa and the emergence of international human rights
South Africa has played a leading role in the development of international human rights in very different and sometime diametrically opposing capacities.
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Access of Individuals to the African International Justice
At the continental level, various legal instruments adopted within the framework of the African Union ((AU) guarantee a certain number of human and peoples’ rights.
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Ubuntu: a Meta-norm for the West?
Ubuntu is an Nguni word that covers a broad semantic field to signify a sharing that connects humans and typifies all right thinking.
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Springer Handbook of Water Resources Management
Water is a limited resource. Water and sanitation are human rights.
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Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment
This project addresses the idea of global citizenship and common humanity in South Africa today.
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Rethinking Sex in Uganda’s Parliament
How do parliaments think about sexualities, sexual citizenship, sexual rights and sexual norms over time and space within the African continent?
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Many Modernities ‐ Religious freedom in South Africa and Sweden
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
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The right to have rights: from migration to integration
One of the key tasks of my stay at STIAS will be to work on a project that addresses the normative and institutional basis of what Hannah Arendt calls the right to have rights.
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Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.
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Exploring interpretations of the constitution and the bible as “sacred texts” in constructing (un)equal gendered environments
Culture, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and history influence processes of identity formation and social relationships.
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Basic questions of ethics (2)
Work at STIAS will be devoted to additional contributions for English and Chinese translations of the book Ethics.
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Future Bodies. Preventing organ trafficking - focusing on consequences and alternatives to organ shortage. A "Health in Transition" Theme Project 2014 -- 2016
Todays society is facing a series of new challenges.
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From Limited Government to Social Justice and Development: Progressive Constitutionalism in the Era of Globalisation
While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.