Fuyuki Kurasawa, The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices

Evaluating Human Rights Advocacy on Criminal Justice and Sex Work.

Between October 2011 and September 2013, we conducted research on the use, by police and/or prosecutors, of condom possession as evidence of intent to engage in prostitution-related offenses. We studied the practice in five large, geographically diverse cities in the U.S. To facilitate our advocacy on this issue, conducted concurrent to and following our research, we developed an advocacy frame...

Global Justice: From Responsibility to Rights

The international migration and recruitment of nurses: human rights and global justice.

THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OF HEALTH CARE workers—physicians, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists—leaves the world’s poorest countries with severe human resource shortages, seriously jeopardizing the achievement of the UN Health Millennium Development Goals. Advocates for global health call active recruitment in low-income countries a crime. Despite the pronounced international concern, there is...

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...

[Against so-called surrogacy. Human rights and global justice against neoliberal bioethics].

El debate sobre la denominada gestación subrogada está arreciando en España de la mano de una campaña política a favor de su regulación. En 2016, en Suecia, sin embargo, se avanzó hacia la prohibición de la gestación subrogada1. No se admite la versión comercial, el modelo californiano2, que es la que responde al boom del turismo reproductivo –una forma de outsourcing a países empobrecidos–, pe...