About the Journal

Human Rights in the Global South (HRGS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing critical and interdisciplinary human rights scholarship rooted in the Global South. Published by the Indonesian Association of Human Rights Lecturers (Serikat Pengajar Hak Asasi Manusia Indonesia or SEPAHAM Indonesia), this journal fills a crucial gap in academic publishing by providing a transregional forum for examining how human rights norms are interpreted, adapted, and contested across diverse legal, political, and cultural contexts.

The term 'Global South' offers a critical and underrepresented viewpoint that goes beyond a geographic label. It denotes a structural and epistemic space shaped by colonial legacies, global inequalities, and historically marginalised experiences. HRGS adopts this lens to interrogate the tension between universal human rights principles and locally grounded norms, especially in contexts where Western frameworks have been selectively adopted, resisted, or reimagined. In doing so, the journal brings forward perspectives from Asia, Africa, and the Latin American–Caribbean region that are often excluded from dominant scholarly discourse.

A wide range of methodological approaches includes doctrinal analysis, empirical inquiry, and socio-legal methods grounded in fieldwork, lived experience, and critical policy analysis. This diversity enables rigorous engagement with the complex interplay of rights, governance, and development in varied Global South contexts. Rather than treating human rights as static or universally defined, contributions to the journal highlight their contested, dynamic, and context-specific nature.

As an open-access journal, HRGS makes all its content freely available to anyone, anywhere, without any subscription or access fees. Readers are free to access, download, share, print, and distribute the full text of articles without needing permission from the publisher or authors. Furthermore, the journal's commitment to open access has been recognised by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This inclusion asserts that this journal meets the rigorous standards for peer-reviewed, open-access publishing. This ensures that the journal's content is widely accessible and can be shared freely, promoting the dissemination of knowledge and advancing the global conversation on human rights.