Remote justice: information rights as a tool of empowerment

Human Rights Software: Information Support Solutions For Social Justice

Human rights centres and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have crucial information support needs, many of which can be met by the existing and ongoing development of information technology software applications. For communication and Internet use, the psiphon program allows for secure and anonymous information exchange and distribution, including firewall circumvention. For data collection...

Global Information Justice: Rights, Responsibilities, and Caring Connections

THEGOAL OF GLOBAL INFORMATION JUSTICE (GlJ) IS TO conserve nature and to preserve humanity through the creative uses of the technologies of information, knowledge, and memory using the practices of rights, responsibilities, and caring connections. This article presents the concept of global information justice and describes it in three different but complementary ways-as an ethical ideal, as an...

Individual rights and social justice.

Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Empowerment in Transitional Justice

The last decades have seen a rise in the public use of notions from the forgiveness discourse. In the present paper it is examined what role forgiveness, reconciliation and empowerment can play in the practice of transitional justice. On the basis of empirical findings, it is shown that forgiveness is too high an ideal to aim at. The promotion of forgiveness can generate much resistance, and ev...

Health through people's empowerment: a rights-based approach to participation.

Analysis of the academic discourse on participation, empowerment, and the right to health since the 1978 Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care and the subsequent Alma-Ata Declaration shows that each phase of the evolution of these concepts added important new aspects to the discussion. This article focuses on three crucial issues that relate to these additions: the importance...