Steven L. B. Jensen

Senior Researcher, Research
PhD in History
Telefon
+45 91 32 57 86

Publications

2024

Jensen, S.L.B., 'Da Danmark forsøgte at gøre tvangssterilisering til beskyttet praksis i international menneskeret', Handicaphistorisk Tidsskrift, 51, 2024, 22-38 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., 'Danmark svigter kampen for global sundhed', Politiken, 24 Januar, pp. 5-6. 2024.
Jensen, S.L.B. , 'On Struggle and Contextualised History: Towards New Political Histories of International Human Rights Law. An Interview with Steven L.B. Jensen, Part 2', Interview Symposium: International Law and the Political, Völkerrechtsblog, 13 February 2024.

2023

Faye Jacobsen, A., Jensen, S.L.B., Koch, P.B., Petersen, M.J., 'Introduktion: Rettigheder i modvind' in Jacobsen, A.F., Jensen, S.L.B., Koch, P.B., Petersen, M.J., Menneskerettigheder i modvind - Konflikter og dilemmaer i dansk politik og lovgivning, : Samfundslitteratur, 2023, p. 9-16 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S:L.B., 'Twentieth-Century Economic and Social Rights: Decolonization and the Global South' in Malcolm Langford and Katharine Young, The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B, 'Writing Political Histories of International Human Rights Law' in Bård A. Andreassen, Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, p. 61-78 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., 'A Roundtable on Michael Franczak, Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s', Passport, April, 2023, p. 13-14 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., 'The UNIA Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World (1920)', Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte/Key Sources on Human Rights in the 20th Century, February, 2023 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., '"The Most Important Document of the Century": The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75', KAS International Reports, 10 December 2023.
Jensen, S.L.B., '„Das wichtigste Dokument des Jahrhunderts” - 75 Jahre Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte', Geschichtsbewusst: Das Public History Portal Der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 8. December 2023.
Jensen, S. L. B., 'Danmark kæmpede for retten til tvangssterilisering', Politiken, 1 August 2023.
Jensen, S.L.B., Golay, C., Lyons, A., Research Brief: Building Back Better with the Rights to Health, Food and Social Security, , 2023 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2022

Jensen, S.L.B, Walton, C. eds., Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S. L. B., 'La Déclaration universelle de droits de l'Homme de 1948 a 70 ans: entre histoire, mémoire et politique' in Valentine Zuber, Emmanuel Decaux et Alexandre Boza, Histoire et postérité de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'Homme: Nouvelle approches , Rennes: Presses universitaires des Rennes, 2022, pp. 99-106. (Non-peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., Walton, C., 'Not 'Second-Generation Rights': Rethinking the History of Social Rights' in Jensen, S.L.B., Walton, C., Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 1-26 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., Christiansen C.O., 'The Road from 1966: Social and Economic Rights after the International Covenant' in Jensen, S.L.B., Walton, C., Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 287-307 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S.L.B., Walton, C., 'Moving towards a new history of social rights', Open Global Rights, 7 April 2022.
Jensen, S.L.B., 'The 1968 United Nations debate on human rights and tech', Open Global Rights, 30 August 2022.
Jensen, S.L.B., 'The moment Stephen Biko became a symbol in international human rights law', Daily Maverick, 12 September 2022.

2021

Lagoutte, S., Lorion, S., Jensen, S. L. B., The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2021 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, S. L. B., ''Human Rights Against Human Arbitrariness': Pandemics in a Human Rights Historical Perspective' in Morten Kjærum, Martha F. Davis and Amanda Lyons, Covid-19 and Human Rights, New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, pp. 3-18 (Peer-reviewed).
Jensen, SLB, 'Aktivisme og ansvar i UNAIDS', Globalnyt, 14 January 2021.
Jensen, S.L.B., Kjærgaard, L. B. , 'Danmark skal gå forrest med støtte til en HIV-vaccine', Altinget, 18 May 2021.
Jensen, S.L.B., 'From the Domestic to the International: Jamaica's 1961 Human Rights Policy', Open Global Rights, 24 September 2021.
Jensen, S.L.B., 'Future's Past: In Search of Human Rights Histories', Open Global Rights, 6 July 2021.

Key competencies

Human rights history (20th Century); global health, HIV/AIDS, Covid-19 and human rights; economic and social rights; the UN system and human rights diplomacy; human rights, global inequality and development

Expertise

Steven L. B. Jensen has specialized in the historical evolution of international human rights, human rights diplomacy as well as global health and human rights. He has extensive research and writing experience with a proven ability to reach diverse audiences. He has solid experience from project design and with generating strategic information on a range of human rights topics, especially related to health issues (e.g. the global response to HIV/AIDS), inequality and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Selected projects

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