Celebrate Human Rights Day Everyday

In honour of Human Rights Day this year, we’ve made a selection of articles looking at human rights issues freely available from numerous titles across several disciplines for a limited time.

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Human Rights Law Review

• The European Court of Human Rights, Extraordinary Renditions and the Right to the Truth: Ensuring Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations Committed in the Fight Against Terrorism
  Federico Fabbrini
  (2013)
• Financial Institutions and Human Rights
  Dr Mary Dowell-Jones
  (2013) 13 (3): 423-468
• Strengthening the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body System
  Suzanne Egan
  (2013) 13 (2): 209-243

International Journal of Refugee Law

• The Next Frontier: Expanding Protection in Europe for Victims of Armed Conflict and Indiscriminate Violence
  Helene Lambert
  (2013) 25 (2): 207-234.
• Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: the Case of Iraqi ‘Refugees’ in Jordan
  Dallal Stevens
  (2013) 25 (1): 1-38.
• Protecting Recognized Geneva Convention Refugees outside their States of Asylum
  Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
  (2013) 25 (2): 235-264.

The International Journal of Transitional Justice

• Transitional Justice and the Prevention of Torture
  Lorna McGregor
  (2013) 7 (1): 29-51.
• Transitional Justice, Jus Post Bellum and International Criminal Law: Differentiating the Usages, History and Dynamics
  Jens Iverson
  (2013) 7 (3): 413-433.
• Managing Expectations: International Criminal Trials and the Prospects for Deterrence of Mass Atrocity
  Kate Cronin-Furman
  (2013) 7 (3): 434-454.

London Review of International Law

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Refugee Survey Quarterly

• The European Convention on Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Refugee Protection
  Jens Vedsted-Hansen
  (2010) 29 (4): 189-206.
• Human Rights and Protection of Non-Citizens: Whither Universality and Indivisibility of Rights?
  David Weissbrodt and Stephen Meili
  (2009) 28 (4): 34-58.

Journal of Refugee Studies

• Sovereignty versus Human Rights: From Past Discourses to Contemporary Dilemmas
  JANINA W. DACYL
  (1996) 9 (2): 136-165.
• We Are Not Here to Claim Better Services Than Any Other’: Social Exclusion among Men from Refugee Backgrounds in Urban and Regional Australia – Not Free
  Ignacio Correa-Velez, Ramon Spaaij, Susan Upham
  (2013) 26 (2): 163-186.

African Affairs

• Alem Bekagn: The African Union's accidental human rights memorial
  Alex de Waal and Rachel Ibreck
  (2013) 112 (447): 191-215.
• Sexual minorities, human rights and public health strategies in Africa
  Marc Epprecht
  (2012) 111 (443): 223-243.

Migration Studies

• Troubling freedom: Migration, debt, and modern slavery
  Julia O’Connell Davidson
  (2013) 1 (2): 176-195.
• When refugees stopped being migrants: Movement, labour, and humanitarian protection
  Katy Long
  (2013) 1 (1): 4-26.

Journal of Human Rights Practice

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Bringing Human Solidarity Back Into the Rights Equation
  Albie Sachs
  (2012) 4 (3): 365-383.
• Kony 2012 in review
  Lucy Harding
  (2012) 4 (3): 461-462.
• Kony 2012 Through a Prism of Video Advocacy Practices and Trends
  Sam Gregory
  (2012) 4 (3): 463-468.
• White Noise: Hearing the disaster
  Lars Waldorf
  (2012) 4 (3): 469-474.
• Jason and the Internauts
  David Hickman
  (2012) 4 (3): 475-480.
• Child Soldiers and Clicktivism: Justice, Myths, and Prevention
  Mark A. Drumbl
  (2012) 4 (3): 481-485.