The jfa editorial board
This Human Rights Day, the jfa editorial board explores how different mediums of art and storytelling are used to express joy and resistance in human rights movements around the world.
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Luna Ranjit
Luna Ranjit writes on the exodus of migrant workers during Covid-19. Highlighting the journeys of young children and even elderly grandparents, she urges us not to forget their stories.
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The jfa editorial board
This World Mental Health Day, Anna Luo examines the mental health crisis in Palestine under occupation, and the impact of armed conflict on the mental wellbeing of Syrian people within the country and abroad.
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Jonathan Chan
This poem commemorates the migrant workers who lost their lives due to an explosion in Tuas, Singapore, a base for industrial activity.
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Emma De Carvalho
A common rebuke against prison abolition is that there is no information on how it would take place. In this opinion column, Emma looks at the lessons we can derive from the Norwegian prison model to rethink our own prisons.
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Émilie Herbert-Pontonnier
Émilie Herbert-Pontonnier reports on how for Romani families in Italy, racism has worsened during Covid-19. Roma families living in informal settlements are often evicted without any alternative housing solution. Under these circumstances, people with small children – some infected with Covid-19 – have been seeking refuge wherever they can.
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Kenneth Johnson
Recalling a significant but underrepresented historical event, Kenneth Johnson spotlights the Orangeburg Massacre, a painful and tragic chapter in American history for Black Americans.
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Safa Ahmed
“Everyone in my school knew that Muslims aren’t bad; they’re just given a bad rep by everyone else.”
Anti-Muslim attitudes are on the rise in India. Safa Ahmed talks about her experience as a Muslim Indian in the diaspora and the challenges they face as Hindu nationalism becomes ever present.
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Hayley Headley
Hayley Headley presents an intimate portrayal of Jamaica’s culture of fatherlessness. Looking at her own upbringing, she explores how single parenthood relates to masculinity and questions of criminality, while celebrating the achievements of her own mother.
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The jfa editorial board
A reflection from the editorial board on the importance of history in our understanding of justice and what constitutes a challenge to human rights.
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Elizabeth Ruth Deyro
In an exploration of how Indigenous education is militarised in southern Philippines, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro writes on how independent schools such as the Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (ALCADEV) are impacted by, and responding to, continuous violations of their human rights.
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Sohaila Abdulali
Writing from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, daughter, mother, counsellor and activist, Sohaila Abdulali not only looks at what we – women, men, trans people, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists, sages, mansplainers, victims and families – think about rape but also questions common assumptions about victimhood.
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