This article analyzes reprisals and intimidation against human rights defenders who engage with the United Nations, focusing on how such cases are monitored and addressed within …
In this chapter, Janika Spannagel critically engages with Hannah Arendt’s ambivalent stance toward human rights, exploring how Arendt’s political thought challenges conventional …
In this chapter, Spannagel provides a systematic inventory of key data types and sources useful for analyzing and assessing academic freedom, outlining both their benefits and …
Our knowledge of worldwide restrictions on academic freedom is limited. To date, no comprehensive and comparative measurement tool is available. This gap not only inhibits a better …
A few months before the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1998, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan summarized its core …
In this chapter, Kinzelbach and Spannagel interrogate the widespread notion that human rights and civil society are facing a global, intensifying “closing space.” They argue that …