by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 16, 2020 | Know Your Rights, Latest
More than half of the world’s refugees are children. An estimated 150+ million children are exploited as child labourers globally – that’s one in ten children. Millions of children are trafficked every year, exploited for sex, labour, or forced into marriages....
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 9, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The freedom from slavery is one of our absolute human rights that cannot be restricted, yet the practice of modern-day slavery is widespread and hidden in plain sight. Many workers leave home when they are given false promises of a decent salary and good working...
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 5, 2020 | Latest, News and Events
Despite the pandemic, several students of the Global Campus of Human Rights Asia Pacific (GC Asia Pacific) were able to successfully defend their thesis between the months of August and September 2020. This is an accomplishment given that students are often unable to...
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 2, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted after the Holocaust, a genocide of Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War 2. Structural violence and state-sponsored hatred built the foundation upon which the genocide of European Jewish people and other...
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 1, 2020 | Latest, News and Events
Last 25 September, Global Campus Asia Pacific Assistant Director Dr. Bencharat Sae Chua and Mr. Punnawit Tantirapan, a student of the Asia Pacific Master’s program batch 2019, participated in a panel discussion organized by the Mahidol University’s...
by GC Asia Pacific | Sep 25, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, often referred to as CEDAW, is a bill of women’s rights. To date, the convention has been ratified by 189 countries and is one of the most widely signed UN treaties. States that have...
