The destruction of educational institutions in armed conflicts is a widespread practice. Following almost ten years of armed conflict in Yemen, heavy damage to their schools forced some students to create improvised classrooms in the middle of the road. This striking scene summarises the harsh reality of an entire generation of Yemeni children struggling to […]
Enter the 2024 Just Access photo competition, and use your photography to make a real difference for human rights! A picture says a thousand words, or so they say. In human rights activism, it may be even more true! Pictures are amazingly powerful. They connect us. They help us to experience places we’ve never […]
Global migration is pivotal to human societies and increasing at an exponential rate. As of 2020, the United Nations estimated there were approximately 281 million international migrants and that women, constituting approximately 48 percent of this population, are assuming an increasingly prominent role. Referred to as the feminisation of labour migration, the increase in women […]
Do you want to make an impact and help to change the world? Want to make a real contribution to our human rights work, but don’t know where to start? Want to help us do more, and help more people? You’re in the right place! In 2024, 100% of Just Access’s funding came from donations. […]
The Paris 2024 Olympics, dubbed the “inclusive games,” boasted the motto “Games Wide Open” or in French “Ouvrons grand les Jeux.” This slogan aimed to paint a picture of inclusivity, openness, and equality, with a promise of gender parity in athlete participation. But beneath this glossy veneer lay a troubling reality that starkly contrasted these […]
Corruption networks often leave behind digital fingerprints in government datasets. Ironically, these schemes depend on legal mechanisms to secure their ill-gotten gains—think companies, land, and assets used for laundering money. All these activities are recorded in public contracts and government transactions. But when this information is kept in isolated silos, finding and fighting corruption becomes […]
What future for international justice, when major powers sanction Courts like the ICC? On the 22nd of May 2024, the U.S. House Republicans announced plans to vote on legislation to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, which materialised less than a month later. On the 4th of June, the House of Representatives voted 247-155 in […]
January 2012 saw the onset of the Mali War, plunging the nation into its worst human rights crisis in 50 years. Since the Ministry of Justice referred this matter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 2012, the ongoing query remains: Can Mali see justice restored? Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag […]
