One of the most humbling moments of my career as a human rights scholar-practitioner took place in Kibera, the largest shantytown in Nairobi, and one of the largest in the world. I was there along with a group of nearly fifty activists who were participating in a global conference about economic and social rights. During the visit, the religious and social leaders who had invited us explained the hard reality that was evident before our eyes: children suffered from chronic malnutrition; there was no drinking water; there were no public roads; and the inhabitants of Kibera eked out a living in the precarious cardboard and zinc huts that reminded me of those of the Afro-Latin-American communities with whom I have worked on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
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Our Director, C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez, published the article “Reimagining Human Rights” in the Journal of International Law and International Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1773,6465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internationalization","category-noticias-internacional-en","subcategory-escr","medium-revista-de-derecho-internacional-y-relaciones-internacionales-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog","post-scope-both-international-national"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n