Human Rights and Business Column

Homa has always offered a space for debate on Human Rights and Business, dialoguing with different actors of the Civil Society, the affected communities, the Academy and the Government. Our institutional website had 9,617 visitors in 2020, an impressive number given the niche of our field.

In order to amplify the voice and encourage the discussion among actors, affected, researchers, and activists on Human Rights and Business, we are creating a space for Columns in our website.

We invite everyone to send analytical texts, essays (opinion) or reports that dialogue with current issues within the field from a perspective of the Global South, the protection of affected communities and the primacy of Human Rights to integrate the biweekly column on our website.

We remind you that for academic productions, such as scientific papers, we have the scientific journal Homa Publica – Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas, which publishes papers on the subject and receives submissions in continuous flow throughout the year.

The texts must be submitted in Word file (.doc/.docx) to the e-mail homa@ufjf.edu.br. The publication is conditioned to the approval of the Coordination and to the fulfilment of suggested edits made by the editorial team if there is any.
The file must also have the title of the text, the authors’ full name and a brief qualification (including your field of work, academic degree, and Institutions of which you are a member);
The text must not exceed 5 pages (except for cases authorized by the Communication Coordination), and font Arial, 12, spacing 1.5; upper and left margins 3.0 cm and lower and right margins 2.0 cm, sheet size A4;
The columns will be evaluated based on: originality; timeliness; relevance to Human Rights and Business issues; consistency and accuracy of approach, as well as the adherence to our institutional objectives and research guidelines.
The text can be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Homa reserves the right of translating the publications into other languages to increase its reach.
The content of the Columns is solely the responsibility of the authors;
The columns can have more than one author as long as everyone has contributed to its production;
Homa reserves the right of denying any text that go against its institutional objectives and research orientations without the obligation of stating the reasons for the refusal, or if the other conditions listed in this notice are not fulfilled.

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