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Bluesky account of the Everyday Human Rights newsletter, a daily dose of stories and insight relating to human rights. No prerequisites but curiosity and care for everyone’s rights.

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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/10/2026
We now have as many subscribers as UN members! Who's going to push us to 194!? everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/09/2026
We are stunned and ecstatic with the level of support we’ve seen. As of today, we hit 150 subscribers! Even more exiting is all the comments and conversations we’ve had recently. If this interests you, then join us either through email or on Substack: everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth, everybody! open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 29/05/2026
"I am a Woman's Rights" From slave to national activist: the most famous speech of Sojourner Truth everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
"I am a Woman's Rights"
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 28/05/2026
Write for Rights The newspaper article that lit the candle of Amnesty International everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Write for Rights
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 18/05/2026
What Is Accepted Today Might be Prohibited Tomorrow Human rights treaties as living instruments everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
What Is Accepted Today Might be Prohibited Tomorrow
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 15/05/2026
Some Families Deserve Protection. Others, Apparently, Don't. International Day of Families and what human rights says counts as a family everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Some Families Deserve Protection. Others, Apparently, Don't.
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 13/05/2026
Ending Slavery in Brazil - Formally but not Completely How the last country in the Western hemisphere abolished slavery everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Ending Slavery in Brazil - Formally but not Completely
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 08/05/2026
War Without Limits Means Suffering Without End Henry Dunant: the man who invented humanitarian law everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
War Without Limits Means Suffering Without End
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/05/2026
Let Me Speak How Domitila Barrios Cuenca forced the world to hear Bolivia's mining women everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Let Me Speak
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/05/2026
Human Rights: Equal on Paper, Unequal in Practice Why it took 37 years before we could enforce socio-economic rights everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Human Rights: Equal on Paper, Unequal in Practice
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/05/2026
Health Is Political, Technical, and Rights-Based Europe dedicates a week to proving it with European Public Health Week everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Health Is Political, Technical, and Rights-Based
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 01/05/2026
From Violent Protest to Leisurely Rest May Day and the right to work: more than a day off everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
From Violent Protest to Leisurely Rest
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 30/04/2026
Rights You Can't Have All at Once Realizing human rights when you ain't got no money, honey everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Rights You Can't Have All at Once
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 29/04/2026
Reducing Impacts of What we can't Prevent The first observance of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Reducing Impacts of What we can't Prevent
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 24/04/2026
Denial is the Final Act Remembering the victims of the Armenian genocide everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/denial-is-...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/04/2026
Who Decides When a Life Ends? Euthanasia, human rights, and the uncomfortable questions in between everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Who Decides When a Life Ends?
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 22/04/2026
The Planet Isn't a Resource. It's a Rights-Holder. Mother Earth Day and the drive to give the environment rights everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
The Planet Isn't a Resource. It's a Rights-Holder.
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Modern solutions for modern problems Celebrating the World Creativity and Innovation Day everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Modern solutions for modern problems
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 20/04/2026
Time to Get Stoned The war on drugs and how it violates human rights everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Time to Get Stoned
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 16/04/2026
Obeying Just Laws & Disobeying Unjust Laws Understanding the lessons from the Letter from Birmingham Jail everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Obeying Just Laws & Disobeying Unjust Laws
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 15/04/2026
Protecting Culture in Times of War The symbol of the Universal Day of Culture everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Protecting Culture in Times of War
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 14/04/2026
Are your Avocados Threatening Human Rights? Being mindful when going to the supermarket everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Are your Avocados Threatening Human Rights?
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 10/04/2026
#FreeBritney Clarifying (or deciding) who gets to decide for people with disabilities everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/freebritney
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 09/04/2026
Grandmas Save the World How the landmark KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland case changed climate litigation everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/grandmas-s...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/04/2026
The Case for Global Medicine How the WHO became humanity's most ambitious health project everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 06/04/2026
Let the Games Begin! Recognizing human dignity through sport everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/let-the-ga...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 01/04/2026
How to Become a Billionaire with Human Rights Guaranteed Rights = 💰 Guaranteed Money 💰 everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...
AI-generated image picturing lots of money, weapons, and a golden figure of Lady Justice. Intentionally meant to be tacky and over-the-top.
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 31/03/2026
*Special post for [what was] Cesar Chavez Day* How do we honor a movement when its leader caused harm to the people it was meant to protect? What does it mean to recognize the great accomplishments of that man side by side with his gross crimes? everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/from-saint...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 18/03/2026
"If we want human rights to mean dignity in practice, we have to do the behind-the-scenes work too." This week we've covered: ▪️Human dignity ▪️Bayard Rustin ▪️My Lai massacre ▪️End of impunity ("amnesty") laws in Latin America ▪️the right to counsel Subscribe for more! everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 17/03/2026
The Man Behind the March Bayard Rustin and his work for two civil rights movements everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/the-man-be...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 13/03/2026
No Amnesty for Atrocity Dismantling the legal shield protecting human rights abusers everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/no-amnesty...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 12/03/2026
Finding Dignity in Rights The source and purpose of human rights
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 11/03/2026
It's women's week! This week we've covered: ▪️Int'l Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation ▪️Dred Scott and citizenship's connection with rights ▪️gender equality ▪️Nadia Murad ▪️ICCPR ▪️A special post on female advocates If you want to learn more, subscribe for free! everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 11/03/2026
Civil Rights are Human Rights The document that made civil rights a global commitment everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/civil-righ...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 10/03/2026
From Powerless Victim to Global Voice for Survivors Transforming lived trauma into a global human rights movement everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/from-power...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 09/03/2026
Women’s Day, Women’s Week, Women’s Month Why one day isn’t enough to achieve justice everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/womens-day...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women’s Day! "When zooming out to the situation worldwide, women only have 64% of the legal rights men have." Today we celebrate the incredible women striving for rights that we've highlighted in Everyday Human Rights this year. everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/happy-inte...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 04/03/2026
"Disasters test whether rights are real when they're most needed." See this week's posts on nature and human rights, including natural hazards and medicinal plants. This week's highlighted advocates: * Sergei Kovalev (Russia) * Meena Keshwar Kamal (Afghanistan) Everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 04/03/2026
Leaving a Legacy The woman who protected her people from a dangerous investment everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/leaving-a-...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 03/03/2026
Wildlife in a Wild World Finding the human in World Wildlife Day everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/wildlife-i...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 02/03/2026
Organize. Enter. Stand Firm. From exile to office and back to opposition everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/organize-e...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 28/02/2026
February is a Wrap! We explored how everyday life—from beans to vacations—connects to human rights through our choices and allocation of resources. Join us for our continued spotlighting of human rights activists and key concepts. See you next month! everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 25/02/2026
"To remember is to resist." The ideas we explored last week include: - Japanese-Americans internment - social justice - speaking one's mother tongue - judicial review - the People Power Revolution Bonus: tomorrow's post is our first reader-suggested topic! everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 11/02/2026
Time for our weekly wrap-up! It's been a week of celebrating scientific achievements, protecting vulnerable groups, and eating beans 🫘! We loved hearing from you about how much you enjoyed us "spilling the beans" about human rights. Let us know what to cover next! everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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