Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in Turkey and the UK
A review of The Balancing of Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and the UK, by Ipek Demirsu. Ipek Demirsu has written…
Category Archives: Human Rights
Archives and Activism in Hispaniola
When I moved to the Dominican Republic in 2012 to conduct dissertation research on the history of Haitian migrant communities I knew I wanted to…
A Partnership for Economic Justice and Human Rights
A review of Look for the Union Label: The American Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee’s Partnership for Economic Justice and International Human…
The Armenian Genocide and Modern Humanitarian Media in the U.S.
A review of “Lest they Perish”: The Armenian Genocide and the Making of Modern Humanitarian Media in the U.S., 1915-1925, by Jaffa L. Panken. How…
Disabled People Empowerment in Museums
A review of How Can Disabled People Be Empowered to Influence Decision-making in Museums? by Heather Jayne Hollins. Focusing on a group of young disabled…
The Erased: Human Rights in Slovenia
A review of Becoming Erased: State Power and Human Rights in Slovenia, by Toby Martin Applegate. After the secession from Yugoslavia and as a result…
Performance, Politick, and Respect in Haiti
A review of “We Make the State”: Performance, Politick, and Respect in Urban Haiti, by Chelsey Kivland. The former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier…
The Humanitarian Path to U.S. Citizenship
A review of Tears and More Tears: The Humanitarian Path to Citizenship, by Sarah Morando Lakhani. The complexity of American immigration law and regulations poses…
A History of the International Tracing Service
A review of From the ‘Archive of Horrors’ to the ‘Shop Window of Democracy’: The International Tracing Service, 1942-2013, by Jennifer L. Rodgers Jennifer Rodgers’…
Teaching Human Rights – Tools for the Interdisciplinary Classroom
Human Rights is an interdiscipline, a field that is not at home in any one discipline, but is informed by a multitude of disciplines and…