human rights
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A world in stable motion
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.
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From the frontlines of the war on refugees
REFUGEES: Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows up his documentary Human Flow with a reportage from the warzones that await refugees in Europe. The Rest is about the millions who came for shelter but found none.
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Foreign political shadow play
GEOPOLITICS: Laurent Larcher calls for openness, value proposition and debate on French foreign policy. The author claims that France's power elite conceal their real agenda behind meaningless statements and secrecy.
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Authoritarian or Democratic?
At the Oslo Freedom Forum’s (OFF) press conference, a question from the audience makes tempers flare.
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A moral duty to tell
Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard presents a new take on human rights battles within the occupied Palestinian territories.
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The untold story of ‘the red gold’
By using production of tomato paste as an example, The Empire of Red Gold gives an astonishing insight on the uncomforting workings of globalism, and the means of production that has up until now never been revealed.
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A quiet form of genocide
Can hunger be abolished? Today’s hunger disasters have political causes, claims professor Alex De Waal. He believes famine must be criminalized and that political leaders must be brought to court.
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REPORT: BURMA
Producer and international documentary ambassador Peter Wintonick recounts his findings as a jury member at the First Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival in the dawn of a new Burma.
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(LGBT) community against a police
Stonewall Uprising illustrates another great step forward in the story of human rights. The gay community organized en masse in 1968, and fought back with a vengeance. This was at the height of many national civil rights movements in the United States.