Editorial

Abstract

This year’s volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal (GCHRJ) reflects the shifting landscape of human rights in a world marked by turbulence, contestation, and resilience. Issues 1 and 2 together reveal how human rights discourse operates across diverse geographies and themes from courts and constitutions to prisons, classrooms, and borderlands. Human rights are always shaped by power yet continually invoked by those demanding justice.

Issue 1: Human Rights in an Age of Fragmentation and Resistance. The first issue of Volume 8 is closely tied to current developments, where human rights face profound challenges worldwide. From widening geopolitical fractures to the rise of authoritarian populism, the universality of rights is increasingly questioned, even as people across the globe continue to mobilise a rights-based language in their daily struggles.

Issue 2: Human Rights Amid Resistance, Memory, and Migration. The second issue explores the changing terrain of human rights, where struggles for justice are bound up with contested histories, fragile democracies, and new patterns of displacement. These contributions remind us that while rights aspire to universality, their enactment is always mediated by political, historical, and socio-economic conditions.