Global Ethics

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji

Sarah Furman • Feb 29 2024 • Essays

Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.

Do Human Rights Protect or Threaten Security?

Caitlin Hoyland • Jan 31 2024 • Essays

Human rights discourse is premised upon the deleterious assumption that humans are separate from and supreme to nature.

Queer Oppression in the Global South and the Structural Violence of Development

Jodie Bradshaw • Jan 4 2024 • Essays

Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.

Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth

Evie Celeste Wayne • Dec 25 2023 • Essays

The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Imperialist Dynamics in International Law

Laura Andrés Serpi • Dec 15 2023 • Essays

By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.

“You Blaspheme, You Die”—The Rise of Anti-Blasphemy in Pakistan

Rishabh Chawda • Dec 13 2023 • Essays

The mala fide accusations, indifference to intent, killing before legal proceedings conclude and impact on minorities point to anti-blasphemy in Pakistan as politicised.

The UNSDGs and Transition to a Sustainable Economy through Post-growth Approach

Shrinwanti Mistri • Oct 14 2023 • Essays

For the UNSDGs to transcend their self-limiting internal contradictions, they need to be reconceptualized as visions in the making and not as goals or targets.

America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation

Lea Wowra • Sep 21 2023 • Essays

Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.

The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation

Priavi Joshi • Jul 31 2023 • Essays

Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.

Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention

Amadeus Marzai • Jul 7 2023 • Essays

Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.

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