human rights

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  These Books Tell of Change Happening Slowly, then Suddenly

  Historians Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, Kate Clifford-Larse and Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor are among the authors whose books dig beneath the surface of famous leaders to describe how social movements built the strength to change laws, institutions and ideas. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/4/2022
  

  In Ukraine, the US Likely to Follow Kissinger's Example and Disappoint Idealists

  by Jeffrey Fields

  "From tacit support of the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War to Washington’s close relationship with brutal human rights abuser Saudi Arabia, the U.S. frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values."

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• 3/17/2022
  

  This March 17, Remember the 80th Anniversary of the Escalation of the Slaughter of Jews at Belzec

  by Rick Halperin

  March marks a grim anniversary of the escalation of the Nazi "final solution" of genocide that should be remembered amid widespread revelry in America.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  2/22/2022
  

  Excavation at Mass Grave in County Galway Could Begin This Year

  The remains of children buried in a mass unmarked grave in Tuam, County Galway, could be exhumed later this year under newly-published legislation.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
  2/16/2022
  

  Harvard Law Prof Responds to Critics of His "Comfort Women" Claims, Fails to Squelch Controversy

  Two Harvard historians (and several colleagues at other instituitons) say that Mark Ramseyer's defense of his article claiming Korean "comfort women" freely contracted their labor as sex workers serving Japanese soldiers during World War II ignores the substance of their criticism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/14/2022
  

  The Public Will be the Ultimate Judge of Whether the Olympics Soften China's Image

  by Michael J. Socolow

  China is doing all it can to use the winter games as a statement of its belonging in the world community. It will be up to the viewers to ask critical questions about the media coverage and spectacle. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/2022
  

  Hunger Strikes are Powerful Stands Against Injustice

  by Nayan Shah

  The hunger strike is a potent tool of resistance when the balance of formal power is highly unequal. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  A Tale of Two Olympics: Changed China in a Changed World

  by Joe Renouard

  Since the 2008 Beijing games, the People's Republic of China's vastly increased global economic power and the COVID pandemic have changed the core narrative around the current winter games. It remains to be seen whether the Olympics will signal a turn back to openness or the intransigence of a confident world power. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/4/2022
  

  Will the Diplomatic Boycott of the Olympics Have any Effect on China?

  by Meghan Herwig

  After Tiananmen Square, it became clear that American foreign policy was limited by other Asian nation's growing dependence on China. Today, as regional relations shift, will a more effective human rights advocacy be possible? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/5/2022
  

  The US Has Long Exploited the Legally Ambiguous Status of Guantanamo Bay

  by Jana Lipman

  The use of the naval base at Guantanamo bay for the detention of both suspected terrorists and refugees and migrants reflects the place's status as outside both Cuban and U.S. law. Since the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuban workers have understood the threat of abuse this status enables. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/1/2022
  

  Russia Bans Human Rights Group Memorial

  "Russia’s supreme court 'liquidated' Memorial, the country’s most vital post-Soviet civic institution, dedicated to the memory of Stalinist repression and the defence of human rights."

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/3/2021
  

  The US Must Not Repeat the Error of Allowing at Totalitarian Regime to Use the Olympics for PR

  by Rafael Medoff

  Despite the famed victories of sprinter Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympics were a victory for Hitler, polishing his regime's image as concerns rose about the persecution of Jews. Amid Chinese persecution of Uyghurs, the US should reconsider participation.

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• SOURCE: Hong Kong Free Press
  9/19/2021
  

  How Hong Kong's Elite Have Embraced a Shifting Narrative on Tiananmen Square

  The rise of pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong has led to increasing reluctance to condemn the Tiananmen massacre. The arrest of protest leaders under the Beijing-backed national security law has further chilled dissent. 

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• SOURCE: Balkinization
  9/20/2021
  

  Fishing, Not Catching, in the History of the Law

  by John Fabian Witt

  John Fabian Witt writes about a critical exchange over Samuel Moyn's book on humanitarian war, and questions Moyn's conception of the relationship between a scholar's politics and their methodology. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  Dosing Arkansas Prisoners with Ivermectin Just Latest Incident of Medical Abuse

  by Lydia Crafts

  "News that an Arkansas prison doctor deceived inmates to take Ivermectin as a COVID preventative shows that nonconsensual research and the experimental use of drugs on vulnerable people remain common — despite evidence of its danger and laws designed to prevent it."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/13/2021
  

  Honoring Attica After Half a Century

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  Activists both inside and outside of prisons in the 1960s and 1970s confronted the violence of the state. Accountability for law enforcement is still an unrealized legacy of the 1971 Attica rebellion. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/8/2021
  

  50 Years Since Attica, Will America Observe the Human Rights of Prisoners?

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  "The Attica prison uprising was historic because these men spoke directly to the public, and by doing so, they powerfully underscored to the nation that serving time did not make someone less of a human being." 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/21/2021
  

  Professor’s ‘Comfort-Women’ Lecture Gets Him Indicted—And Sparks Debate on Academic Freedom

  "In an interview, Mr. Lew said he had given that same lecture for more than a decade. Students always pushed back and they debated. But the discourse had never before become public."

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• 7/25/2021
  

  America's Leaders Haven't Learned from Past International Rivalries

  by Danielle Taana Smith

  American leaders have failed to learn from the past and are staking the nation's health to competition with foreign adversaries instead of improvement of American lives. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/28/2021
  

  The U.N. Rights Chief Says Reparations Are Needed For People Facing Racism

  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation.