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Article by Aaron Rhodes in The World Post Reactions to Prime Minister Cameron’s plan to loosen the United Kingdom’s relationship to the European Court of Human Rights have been predictably hysterical and infused with partisanship. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called the plan “appalling,” adding that“the idea that we take away human rights, I think, is just an awful suggest

Aaron Rhodes on human rights defenders in Iran at the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council. (Opens in a new window)

Fundamental rights risk losing importance due to an increase of international human rights conventions. This was the thesis discussed during an event on “Expansion of human rights – blessing or curse?” organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Brussels. The phenomenon known as “human rights inflation” could be counterproductive according to certain experts and could paradoxically lead to a further

International Human Rights Activist,essayist and university lecturer based in Hamburg,Germany, Aaron Rhodes, in an exclusive interview with The Oslo Times International News Network’s Editor-in-Chief, Hatef Mokhtar, spoke about pertaining human rights issues in Europe including the growing religious and political extremism in various countries across Europe. Rhodes, who is also a co-founder of the Freedom Rights Pro

Article on China in Perspective By Aaron Rhodes China’s human rights record has deteriorated under the rule of President Xi Jinping. The persecution of religious minorities and human rights activists has worsened. The ability of Chinese to speak and associate freely has been further restricted. China has even more aggressively rejected international concerns about such problems, with official sources denying the

Commentary article on the “Human rights, a classical liberal agenda”-session at the 2014 Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner session Comments by Aaron Rhodes Thank you for this opportunity to take part in the Liberty Forum, and thus to address a group that understands that real human rights are freedom rights—the fundamental rights that should secure our freedom from government coercion—and that freedom righ

From Ejil: Talk!: This week Professors Geoff Corn (left, South Texas College of Law) and Guglielmo Verdirame (right, Kings College London & barrister at 20 Essex Street) contributed pieces in the joint blog series arising out of the Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict held in Oxford this past July. Read the article here

From Intercross: Intercross is pleased to bring you this article by Guest Blogger, Guglielmo Verdirame - an Italian-born Professor of International Law at King’s College London in the Department of War Studies and the School of Law. He was previously a university lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He also practices

Why the new United Nations human rights advocate is the wrong man for the job. The nomination of longtime career diplomat Ambassador Zeid (shown in the picture above) has been largely met with approval from major human rights organizations. But there are grounds for concern about how Ambassador Zeid will treat what is arguably the most consequential human right: the right to freedom of expression.

The Freedom Rights Project will co-host a human rights conference with Freedom House in Washington D.C. on 19 May 2014. This conference will provide a platform for international human rights practitioners, policy makers, and academics to share perspectives on the efficacy of the international human rights protection system and ideas for improvement.