The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Meanwhile, nations of the Global South, still emerging from historical exploitation under colonialism, face decisions about natural resource use that are, for traditional owners and inhabitants of resource-rich lands, often a matter of life or death.Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri has worked alongside many of India's forest-dwelling communities and describes how they bear the cost of both rapacious mining development and increasing pressure for forest land to be set aside for environmental conservation.Despite these challenges, Kodiveri shows how the traditional owners and inhabitants of forest areas are driving creative solutions in forest law. Hope can be found here, in each community's unique vision of co-governance, expressed in the language of care and repair.

Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por parte de ex alumnos del Taller Global para Jóvenes Defensores de Derechos Humanos, organizado cada año por Dejusticia. Los talentosos autores de este libro son alumnos de distintas cohortes que volvieron a reunirse en 2018 para repensar el futuro de los derechos humanos desde la intersección entre el mundo de la investigación y del activismo.En este volumen, los y las autoras cuestionan los métodos tradicionales y exploran nuevas formas y visiones para hacer avanzar los derechos humanos en el convulsionado contexto del siglo XXI. Desde la lucha de los mineros a pequeña escala en Ghana, hasta el uso del litigio estratégico en el Líbano, pasando por declarar a la naturaleza sujeto de derecho en la India, ¿son estas diferentes razones para mantener la esperanza? O, por el contrario, como lo muestra el caso de la Ley Marcial en las Filipinas, del tratamiento de las aguas usadas en Argentina o del conflicto interno en Yemen, ¿los derechos humanos no han cumplido sus promesas?Sea cual sea la respuesta, Reimaginando el futuro de los derechos humanos nos invita a reflexionar sobre el quehacer de los derechos humanos en distintos contextos, los retos y desafíos, pero también los avances. Forman, en conjunto, una fotografía del estado actual de los derechos humanos que puede contribuir a guiar el trabajo que hacemos como activistas e investigadores en el futuro

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 Rights 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.

The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Meanwhile, nations of the Global South, still emerging from historical exploitation under colonialism, face decisions about natural resource use that are, for traditional owners and inhabitants of resource-rich lands, often a matter of life or death.Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri has worked alongside many of India's forest-dwelling communities and describes how they bear the cost of both rapacious mining development and increasing pressure for forest land to be set aside for environmental conservation.Despite these challenges, Kodiveri shows how the traditional owners and inhabitants of forest areas are driving creative solutions in forest law. Hope can be found here, in each community's unique vision of co-governance, expressed in the language of care and repair.

Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por parte de ex alumnos del Taller Global para Jóvenes Defensores de Derechos Humanos, organizado cada año por Dejusticia. Los talentosos autores de este libro son alumnos de distintas cohortes que volvieron a reunirse en 2018 para repensar el futuro de los derechos humanos desde la intersección entre el mundo de la investigación y del activismo.En este volumen, los y las autoras cuestionan los métodos tradicionales y exploran nuevas formas y visiones para hacer avanzar los derechos humanos en el convulsionado contexto del siglo XXI. Desde la lucha de los mineros a pequeña escala en Ghana, hasta el uso del litigio estratégico en el Líbano, pasando por declarar a la naturaleza sujeto de derecho en la India, ¿son estas diferentes razones para mantener la esperanza? O, por el contrario, como lo muestra el caso de la Ley Marcial en las Filipinas, del tratamiento de las aguas usadas en Argentina o del conflicto interno en Yemen, ¿los derechos humanos no han cumplido sus promesas?Sea cual sea la respuesta, Reimaginando el futuro de los derechos humanos nos invita a reflexionar sobre el quehacer de los derechos humanos en distintos contextos, los retos y desafíos, pero también los avances. Forman, en conjunto, una fotografía del estado actual de los derechos humanos que puede contribuir a guiar el trabajo que hacemos como activistas e investigadores en el futuro

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 Rights 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.