The issue #10 of Sur Journal has just been published

 

The issue #10 of Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, produced in partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), has just been published. Check it out at http://www.surjournal.org

Below the list of articles and authors of the issue #10:

• Anuj Bhuwania: "Very wicked children": "Indian torture" and the Madras Torture Commission Report of 1855
• Daniela De Vito, Aisha Gill and Damien Short: Rape characterised as genocide
• Christian Courtis: Notes on the implementation by Latin American courts of the ILO Convention 169 on indigenous peoples
• Benyam D. Mezmur: Intercountry adoption as a measure of last resort in  Africa: Advancing the rights of a child rather than a right to a child

    HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE ON THE MOVE:MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES

•       Katharine Derderian and Liesbeth Schockaert: Responding to "mixed" migration flows: A humanitarian perspective
•       Juan Carlos Murillo: The legitimate security interests of the State and international refugee protection
•       Manuela Trindade Viana: International cooperation and internal  displacement in Colombia: Facing the challenges of the largest  humanitarian crisis in South America
•       Joseph Amon and Katherine Todrys: Access to antiretroviral treatment for migrant populations in the Global South
•       Pablo Ceriani Cernadas: European migration control in the African  territory: The omission of the extraterritorial character of human  rights obligations

The Sur Journal - edited in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish- is published twice a year, distributed free of charge to approximately 2,700 readers in over 100 countries. The Journal aims at disseminating a Global Southern perspective on human rights and to facilitate exchange among professors and activists the Global South without disregarding contributions other regions.

The next issue will focus on "Milllenium Development Goals and Human Rights & Corporate Accountability and Human Rights" and "Actions and Reflections on a) Sexual rights, b) Access to medicines and intellectual property and c) Religious freedoms". Thus, articles dealing with this issue will have priority, but not exclusiveness. This number will also have articles adressing other Human Rights issues. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2010. For further information, check out the call for papers at the Journal website.