Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Today’s Landscape

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Sustainability Matters

De Gruyter Brill

113 episodes

2 weeks ago

This month on Sustainability Matters, we discuss whether external research promotion has any tangible effects. Can external media attention translate into academic citations? Does choosing the “right” journal matter? And do we risk perverse outcomes from over-incentivising citations? All this and more with Dr. Steffen Lemke and Dr. Isabella Peters, authors of “Path model of the interplay between the promotion and the received attention of research articles” along with Dr. Athanasios Ma...

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Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Today’s Landscape

Sustainability Matters

43 minutes

1 year ago

Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Today’s Landscape

As global crises have time and time again demonstrated, NGOs play an invaluable role in the protection and promotion of human rights. But what exactly does this role entail? How do NGOs fulfil their responsibilities while adapting to technological, commercial, and legal landscape shifts? And finally, who or what really constitutes a protector? We answer these questions and more with Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, Volume Editor of The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs, which is part of Brill’s “I...