Global Campus of Human Rights

14/10/2026

✒️ "Public International Law: Not Law? Not so International?"

Join us for our first podcast featuring Professor Pirjatanniemi and Professor Manfred Nowak discussing human rights and environmental challenges.

14/10/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻?

Quite a lot.

International adoption emerged in Guatemala in the late 1970s and expanded during the country’s internal armed conflict, amid forced disappearances, displacement and grave human rights violations.

New research by alumnus Juan José Margos García goes back to the archives to investigate how this system operated — and what seemingly routine legal documents can reveal about the people, institutions and economic relationships behind it.

By examining notarial records alongside other archival sources, the research finds that the 392 adoption files previously identified in state administrative records captured only part of the picture. The archives reveal additional adoption proceedings, new intermediaries and connections between adoption cases and other legal and economic transactions — including property leases involving some of the same actors. These findings open new avenues for reconstructing how the international adoption system actually operated.

'𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮' shows why preserving and interrogating historical archives matters: not only for understanding the past, but for continuing efforts towards truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition for internationally adopted people and their families of origin.

Read the research brief (in Spanish | Executive summary in English):

https://repository.gchumanrights.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/8c5b66a7-e438-4294-832c-f7a15e25074c/content



Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos

13/10/2026

🌎 On 6 October 2026, the University of Belize and the Global Campus, with the support of the European Union and United Nations Human Rights, brought together over 60 participants for the regional webinar "Understanding and Addressing Discrimination: Towards Equality and Inclusion" exploring discrimination from legal, institutional and regional perspectives.

From racial discrimination and gender equality to Indigenous rights and LGBTQI+ inclusion, the discussion highlighted the importance of moving beyond legal protections towards meaningful inclusion, participation and respect for human dignity.

🎥 Read the full story and access the recording ⤵️

This initiative was implemented under the and programmes, and funded by the EU.



CARICOM: Caribbean Community
Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos
European Commission
European Union in Belize

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The webinar was organized with the support of the European Union and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), within the framework of the EU-funded project “Strengthening Human Rights Advocacy Among Youth in Belize Through Academic Research, Capacity Building, a...

13/10/2026

The International Electoral Observers Course is organised with the patronage of the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic and Spain, and is supported by theEuropean External Action Service - EEAS, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the African Union and The Carter Center. This backing further strengthens its well-established international recognition and affirms its value for real-world fieldwork.

This programme employs a multi-disciplinary approach, combining asynchronous and synchronous methodologies to deliver a dynamic and interactive learning experience.

Apply now: https://www.gchumanrights.org/training-and-courses/ieo/

📅 Course dates: 9-13 November 2026 with daily live sessions
Application deadline:
31 October 2026

Training and Courses Online Training for International Electoral Observers 9 – 13 November 2026 20th edition Date & Place 9 – 13 November 2026online Fees and Scholarships € 475 10% discount for GC alumni Tuition waiver opportunities Application Deadlines 5 October 2026 for tuition waiver appli...

12/10/2026

Sta per tornare il nostro Seminario Avanzato di Aggiornamento sulla Giurisprudenza della Corte EDU, 23-25 Ottobre 2026

In seguito alla nascita del Corso sulla Convenzione Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo nel 2014, la comunità di esperti in materia della Convenzione è cresciuta edizione dopo edizione, non solo in dimensioni, ma anche in bagaglio di conoscenze teoriche e pratiche.

Fin da subito, gli alumni di questo Corso hanno manifestato una forte necessità di consolidare nozioni e ragionamenti; per questo motivo, molti di loro hanno fatto ritorno, partecipando a più edizioni. A partire dal 2018, tuttavia, la sempre più crescente esigenza di aggiornamento ha portato alla decisione di offrire uno spazio completamente dedicato a questo fine. È così nato il Seminario Avanzato di Aggiornamento, realizzato sempre nel contesto di Venezia, dove l’expertise in materia e le modalità formative sono fortemente consolidate, e permettono perciò un contesto di formazione avanzata di alto livello.

L’aggiornamento sulle tematiche della Convenzione permette ai partecipanti non solo di riprendere nozioni e affinare le tecniche di ragionamento giuridico, ma anche di essere più efficaci nell’applicazione dei principi della Corte nella propria professione.

Training and Courses Seminario Avanzato di Aggiornamento sulla Giurisprudenza della Corte EDU 23 – 25 ottobre 2026 6° edizione Data e luogo 23 - 25 ottobre 2026 Venezia Lido Quota d'iscrizione € 500 Riduzioni previste Termine iscrizioni 9 ottobre 2026 Crediti formativi 8 crediti Iscriviti Una c...

12/10/2026

New Online Course for Human Rights Defenders on Displacement and Exile!
Module 2: Vulnerabilities and Risk Assessment.

What factors should shape the decision to stay, relocate, or seek exile? How can HRDs navigate uncertainty while maintaining control over their choices?
Through real experiences and expert perspectives, you will gain tools to better understand the complex decisions and realities that HRDs face by:

Understanding your risk landscape: identify potential threats, assess vulnerabilities, and consider the consequences that different situations may bring.
Making informed decisions: weigh the opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs of different pathways, including staying, temporary relocation, or exile.
Strengthening your agency: discover practical ways to maintain choice, control, and resilience, even in highly challenging circumstances.

Register at the link below to receive practical guidance from our Human Rights Defenders’ Guide on Displacement and Exile – created by HRDs for HRDs.
The course is free, open access, self-paced, and includes a certificate upon completion.
🔗 Learn more and enrol: http://bit.ly/3TdZPFH
🎥 Watch the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxMEJwAB0TE


From our useful resources and readings ⬇️

In a research project conducted with human rights defenders in Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya, and Indonesia, 86 percent of 391 respondents to a survey expressed that they were ‘somewhat concerned’ or ‘very concerned’ about their mental and emotional wellbeing.

10/10/2026

⚖️🇪🇺 Today, students of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA - ) took part in the ECHR Moot Court, the culmination of a week devoted to the international law of civil and political rights, with a focus on the European Convention on Human Rights.

The hearing was presided over by Judge Artūrs Kučs of the European Court of Human Rights, himself an EMA alumnus. Two teams of students argued the case for the applicant and for the State, while their classmates formed a people’s court and delivered their own judgment. Lecturers and staff also sat as the European Court.

This year’s hypothetical case, Kampour v. Lidonia (the “Love Island Case”), raised questions on national security, deportation, detention and the right to family life.
The moot court gives students the chance to analyse legal issues, experience the practical side of the law and engage directly with a sitting judge.

We thank Judge Kučs, our lecturers and everyone involved in the week, and congratulate our students on their excellent work!

🔗 www.emahumanrights.org


EMAlumni Association Global Campus Alumni

10/10/2026

⚖️ 𝗜𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵, 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘅 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

The Constitution directs the state to prevent prostitution, yet also protects equality, freedom of occupation and protection from arbitrary arrest. S*x work itself is not directly criminalised, and courts have recognised it as a lawful occupation in limited contexts. In practice, however, s*x workers face a patchwork of criminal and administrative rules and discretionary enforcement.

🔎 New research by Global Campus Alumni (GCA) Mahmudul Hasan ( ) and Aoife Dempsey ( ) examines this contradiction through a feminist legal lens. Drawing on legal analysis and interviews—including with s*x workers, feminist activists, academics, legal professionals and law-enforcement officials—the study asks how law on paper translates into lived reality.

Its central finding is a system of “quasi-legal governance”: s*x workers are neither fully criminalised nor fully protected. Legal recognition coexists with policing, administrative restrictions and social exclusion, leaving a persistent gap between formal rights and their practical enjoyment.

💡 An accompanying policy brief turns the research into recommendations for lawmakers, courts, law-enforcement agencies and human-rights institutions—including clearer distinctions between consensual adult s*x work, trafficking and exploitation, and stronger safeguards against arbitrary enforcement.

📄 Explore the research and policy brief: https://doi.org/10.25330/3251

*xWorkersRights

09/10/2026

💡 "Trans lives are often survival-focused and precarious, having to defend the basic right to exist. Every anti-trans law gives legal justification to deny our right to live with dignity. Multiply-marginalised trans people are often most affected with least say."

Read the GC Human Rights Preparedness Blog post "Collective care for gender liberation: a non-binary Central Asian perspective" by Beka Tiulegenova, the blog’s regional correspondent for Central Asia, here:
https://www.gchumanrights.org/preparedness/collective-care-for-gender-liberation-a-non-binary-central-asian-perspective/

Beka Tiulegenova hold a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Human Rights and Sustainability (MAHRS), offered via Global Campus Central Asia at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. They apply intersectional lenses in their analysis of human rights issues with focus on q***r, children, autonomy, and labour rights.


Global Campus Alumni

09/10/2026

📆Twenty-five years ago, a group of universities across a region still recovering from war decided that human rights education needed a home of its own. On 3 October, at the Univerzitet u Sarajevu, that experiment marked its quarter-century — and graduated its 25th cohort.

The European Regional Master's Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe ( ) now counts more than 700 alumni, each holding a double degree from the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna. This year's 26 graduates join them at a moment of resurgent ultra nationalism, deepening division and challenges that respect no border. Cross-university cooperation, in that reading, is no longer simply good practice; it is infrastructure.

The ceremony drew figures whose careers embody what the programme asks of its graduates. Dr Stella Nyanzi, one of Africa's most prominent gender rights activists, and Veronica Gomez, President of the Global Campus and Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, spoke alongside ERMA's co-directors and Dr Zilka Spahić Šiljak (TPO Foundation and University of Sarajevo), the first recipient of the ERMA Alumni Network Human Rights Award.

Alumni returning for the anniversary offered their own measure of what 25 years adds up to. Alumnus Zlatan Hajlovac reflected: “ERMA made me question certain social constructs and narratives, and their political roots. It also taught me how law, politics, and the media project realities that we live in. In that way it taught me a lot about my identity as a person, and helped me grow both personally and professionally.”



European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe
Epiet Alumni Network (EAN)

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On 3 October 2026, the Rectorate of the University of Sarajevo filled with graduates, families, faculty and diplomats to mark a double milestone: the graduation of the 2025/2026 cohort of the European Regional Master's Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe (ERMA), and the prog...