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Sharia and Human Rights Law in the Constitutional Framework of Gulf States Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Eleni Polymenopoulou
The present article discusses the extent to which the Sharia and human rights are intermingled in the constitutional architecture of Gulf countries, focusing on two main questions: first, the extent to which the constitutional references to the Sharia in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Constitutions coexist—or can coexist—harmoniously with constitutional liberties. Secondly, the extent to which the
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The International Criminal Court's Opportunity to Correct the Erroneous Interpretation of the Mens Rea for Genocide Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Cóman Kenny, Travis Farr
The destruction of a group by a process of forced conversion or assimilation, wherein the identity of a protected group, be it national, ethnic, racial, or religious, is eradicated and replaced with another identity is not covered by the prevailing definition of the mens rea of the crime of genocide, which requires that a perpetrator intend the physical or biological destruction of a protected group
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Co-Opting Truth: Explaining Quasi-Judicial Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Shauna N. Gillooly, Daniel Solomon, Kelebogile Zvobgo
What accounts for the creation, design, and outputs of quasi-judicial institutions in autocracies? Prior research demonstrates that autocrats co-opt electoral, legislative, and judicial institutions to curtail opponents’ power and curry international patrons’ favor. However, scholarship on co-optation neglects quasi-judicial mechanisms, such as truth commissions, that can be useful for arranging a
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The Language Barrier: Can the ICC Prosecute Chemical Warfare? Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Nadia Ahmad
International law has come a long way in outlawing chemical weapon usage during warfare. From the 1907 Hague Convention to the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, there exists a comprehensive and mostly successful prohibition and verification regime for chemical weapons. However, the advent of modern warfare in recent conflicts in Syria and in Ukraine demonstrates compliance control is severely lacking
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Public Service Professionals as Human Rights Actors: Positioning the Social Worker Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alicia Dibbets
Daily decisions taken by public service professionals such as social workers may directly impact their client’s rights, especially if they are working in a law and policy context that is questionable in human rights terms. This article takes a novel approach by exploring what human rights roles are attributed to public service professionals by United Nations (UN) Treaty Bodies and UN Special Rapporteurs
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Protecting the Right to Have Rights: Defending the Enfranchisement of Refugees Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Adelin-Costin Dumitru
In this article I challenge the interpretation of refugees as passive beneficiaries of political decisions and make a case for their enfranchisement. Starting from literature regarding the boundary problem of democratic theory, I make a republican case for including refugees in the demos. My novel approach emphasizes that bestowing electoral rights upon refugees is a separate question from offering
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Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored ed. by Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Marjorie Agosin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored ed. by Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim Marjorie Agosin (bio) Russ Davidson & Leslie Blaugrund Kim eds., Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored (Museum of New Mexico Press 2023), ISBN 9780890136751, 240 pages. Sometimes, one encounters a book
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Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Gary M. English
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda Gary M. English (bio) Michelle Castañeda, Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law (Duke University Press 2023), ISBN 9781470819633 (Paperback), 186 pages. Michelle Castañeda, Assistant Professor in Performance Studies at NYU
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Contributors Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2024-01-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Marjorie Agosin is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and memoirs, including most recently The Guardian of Memory: Aldo Izzo and the Jewish Cemetery of Venice (Solis Press 2023). Nadia Ahmad (SJD, LLM) is an Assistant Professor at Prince
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P.C. Chang and Charles Malik: The Two Philosophers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Hans Ingvar Roth
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was the result of almost two years of work from several participants and organizations before its adoption in the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The Declaration is one of the world's most famous and translated documents even though its principles and moral insights are far from realized around the world today. Although it was a collaborative work
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UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies Talking to Domestic Adjudicators Through Their Quasi-judicial Work: An Examination of CERD and CEDAW Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Eva Brems
The article examines the merit of UN treaty bodies' accumulated case law as a resource for domestic adjudicators, i.e., courts and quasi-judicial bodies (such as national human rights institutions) addressing human rights complaints at the national level. It has the objective of assessing the extent to which treaty bodies are "talking to" an audience beyond the parties in the case. Starting from a
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Human Rights, Remedy, and Everyday Geographies of Injustice: Perspectives from a Participatory Action Research Project Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jean Connolly Carmalt
This article contributes to literature on economic and social rights by examining how everyday places and spaces translate structural inequalities into individualized violations of international norms. Drawing on data from a participatory action research project in New York called The Legal Disruption Project (LDP), it argues for new models of knowledge production that bridge gaps between the experiences
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Trust, Legal Elites, and the European Court of Human Rights Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Cosette D. Creamer, Zuzanna Godzimirska
This article interrogates institutional sources of trust distinct to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Drawing from interviews with ECtHR officials and legal elites, the article identifies practices related to access, procedure, and performance that are central to direct stakeholders' evaluations of judicial trustworthiness. Elite trust is necessary for the continued operation of judicial
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The Revival of Human Rights: A New Perspective on Human Rights Through the Lens of Disability Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Gauthier de Beco
This article argues that adopting the lens of disability may provide a way forward for the revival of human rights. It shows how it is disability that draws attention to resource deprivation that hampers the enjoyment of human rights. It does so by focusing on two novel aspects of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): the general principle of participation and the adoption
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Suffering and Survival: The Experience of Dutch Women in Japanese Internment Camps in Java, 1941–45 Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mia Jeronimus
The case of Dutch women imprisoned in Japanese internment camps in Java, 1941-45, is a little known chapter within the well-known context of the Second World War. This article deciphers the possibilities of their experience by examining two temporally distinct sets of sources from the women's perspectives. The first comprises a series of ego-documents and interviews written during the war and just
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Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective eds. by Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache & Caroline Elkins (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective eds. by Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache & Caroline Elkins Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann (bio) Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache & Caroline Elkins, eds., Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (University of Pennsylvania Press 2021), ISBN 9780812253306, 396 pages. This collection
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International Human Rights Law and Destitution: An Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Perspective by Luke D. Graham (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Muneeb Khan, Yen-Chiang Chang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: International Human Rights Law and Destitution: An Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Perspective by Luke D. Graham Muneeb Khan (bio) and Yen-Chiang Chang (bio) Luke D. Graham, International Human Rights Law and Destitution: An Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Perspective (Routledge 2022) ISBN: 9781032074726, 192 pages
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Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times by Jack Snyder (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mark Gibney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times by Jack Snyder Mark Gibney (bio) Jack Snyder, Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times (Princeton University Press 2022), ISBN 9780691231549, 328 pages. One of the oddest things about Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times is how
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The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture by Lisa Hajjar (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rebecca Root
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture by Lisa Hajjar Rebecca Root (bio) Lisa Hajjar, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture (University of California Press 2022), ISBN 9780520378933, 376 pages. Lisa Hajjar was already an established expert on the sociology of torture when the United States
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Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier by Adam P. Saltsman (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Don Selby
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier by Adam P. Saltsman Don Selby (bio) Adam P. Saltsman, Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier (Syracuse University Press 2022), ISBN 9780815637639, 288 pages. Adam P. Saltsman's Border Humanitarians is
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Mass Graves, Truth and Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Investigation of Mass Graves eds. by Ellie Smith & Melanie Klinker (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Eric Stover
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mass Graves, Truth and Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Investigation of Mass Graves eds. by Ellie Smith & Melanie Klinker Eric Stover (bio) Ellie Smith & Melanie Klinker eds., Mass Graves, Truth and Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Investigation of Mass Graves (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023), ISBN
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Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World eds. by Lee C. Bollinger & Agnès Callamard (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Richard Ashby Wilson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World eds. by Lee C. Bollinger & Agnès Callamard Richard Ashby Wilson (bio) Lee C. Bollinger & Agnès Callamard eds., Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World (Columbia University Press 2021), ISBN 9780231196994, 440 pages.
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Human Rights Quarterly Volume 45 Index Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-10-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Human Rights Quarterly Volume 45 Index HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY is published in February, May, August, and November. It is a journal offering scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, social sciences, humanities, and science a multidisciplinary forum in which to present comparative and international research on public policy within the
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Advice without Consent?: Assessing the Advisory Jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Despite enduring prolonged skepticism, Africa’s regional human rights has a complex architecture of institutions, norms, procedures, and jurisprudence. A major entity among these institutions is the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. In existence for over one and a half decades, the Court remains an institution in transition. With an identity defined mostly by its contentious jurisdiction
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Forum-Shifting and Human Rights: Prospects for Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Jamie J. Hagen, Catherine O'Rourke
The adoption of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda by the UN Security Council constituted a forum-shift by women’s rights advocates away from the human rights system. As queer critique of the WPS agenda gathers pace, this article reflects on the antecedents of the queer exclusions of the WPS agenda in international human rights law. The article thereby reveals the consequences in other international
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Much Ado about Something: Re-thinking the Right to Development Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Nsongurua Udombana
This article revisits the right to development (R2D) paradigm. It conceptualizes development using a rights-based model, noting the failure of the conventional paradigm that focuses one-sidedly on economic growth. It interrogates the dialectics on the existence of a R2D, with its correlative duty-bearers, under particular international law, with rigorous analysis of some global instruments. The article
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Agents with Principles? Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence with Human Rights Laws and Norms Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Kathryn L. Overton, Sally Sharif
Focusing on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), we posit that behavioral expectations in the form of norms and laws have a visible impact on government militaries. Using data from over 2,000 actor-incidents between 1989 and 2015, we find a robust negative relationship between physical integrity norms and CRSV. CRSV is often a gendered act, but its prevention is not. Our analysis suggests that
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The Image of a Lesser God: Imago Dei and the Human Rights of Children Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Richard P. Hiskes
Since the time of Augustine, and continuing today, it is common for religious believers to say that humans are created in the “image of God.” This imago dei idea was also commonly invoked, beginning in the seventeenth century, by Liberal theorists like Locke and Jefferson, as the foundation for natural or human rights. In this article, I will argue that for centuries, the dominant interpretations of
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Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All by Patricia Illingworth (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Lila Corwin Berman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All by Patricia Illingworth Lila Corwin Berman (bio) Patricia Illingworth, Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All (Oxford University Press 2022), ISBN 9780190907044, 216 pages. The Wexner Foundation funded four years of my graduate education, including tuition and stipend. At
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Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador by Elizabeth Barnert (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Andreas Kleiser
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador by Elizabeth Barnert Andreas Kleiser (bio) Elizabeth Barnert, Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador (University of California Press 2023), ISBN 9780520386150, 370 pages. In Reunion Elizabeth Barnert examines the psychological, social, and economic
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Contributors Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-07-31
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Lila Corwin Berman holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University. Her most recent book is The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Princeton University Press 2020). Jamie J. Hagen is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University
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The Right to Property Taking Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Seriously Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Koldo Casla
The right to property is part of International Human Rights Law (IHRL). However, the right is conspicuously missing from some fundamental treaties, and there are important inconsistencies in its interpretation by regional and global human rights bodies. In light of the indeterminacy and polysemy of IHRL in relation to property, this paper articulates a proposal to rethink this right taking Economic
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Human Rights Economics Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Caroline Dommen
Over the decades human rights advocates have increasingly engaged with economic policy with a growing focus on what economies would look like if they were based on human rights. This article reports on an inquiry that asked whether it is possible to articulate a concept of human rights economics and if so, what its main features would be. This article notes the elements that ecological, feminist, and
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Rights Beyond Words: Mapping Human Rights Scholar-Organization Partnerships Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Shareen Hertel
For many human rights scholars, the study of human rights is more than intellectual curiosity; it is the motivation for their work. They try to use their research and expertise to improve human rights conditions and work with policymakers and advocacy groups. This article explores the complexities of partnerships between scholars and human rights organizations and groups (HROGs). Focusing primarily
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Taking Class Seriously Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andrew Fagan
This article critically analyzes the human rights perspective upon what has emerged as one of the most significant socioeconomic and political challenges confronting many millions of people residing within high-income, liberal-democratic societies: rising poverty and socioeconomic inequality. This article argues that international and domestic human rights law and the social and political imaginaries
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Judicial Agency and the Adjudication of Social Rights Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Whitney K. Taylor
This article explores the impact of judicial interpretation on legal system change. An analysis of constitutional rights cases and 178 semi-structured interviews with judges, lawyers, and activists shows that judges created opportunities for mobilization for social rights by changing understandings about and uses of pre-existing institutional arrangements, through the contingent exercise of judicial
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On Deserving Victims and the Undeserving Poor: Exploring the Scope of Distributive Justice in Transitional Justice Theory and Practice Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Felix E. Torres
This article explores the relationship between distributive justice and transitional justice in post-conflict societies with challenging socioeconomic demands. It revisits the main philosophical debate on distributive justice in the Anglo-American tradition and traces its reception by academics and practitioners in the fields of development, human rights, and transitional justice. The article shows
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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré by Reed Brody (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Naomi Roht-Arriaza
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré by Reed Brody Naomi Roht-Arriaza (bio) Reed Brody, To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré (Columbia University Press 2022), ISBN 9780231202589, 296 pages. When the verdict was announced in a Dakar courtroom in May 2016, it marked the culmination
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International Human Rights: A Survey by Cher Weixia Chen & Alison Dundes Renteln (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: International Human Rights: A Survey by Cher Weixia Chen & Alison Dundes Renteln Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (bio) Cher Weixia Chen & Alison Dundes Renteln, International Human Rights: A Survey (Cambridge University Press 2022), ISBN 9781108484865, 590 pages. The term “tour de force” is overused, but in the case of Chen and
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Anatomy of Torture by Ron E. Hassner (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Ryan M. Welch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Anatomy of Torture by Ron E. Hassner Ryan M. Welch (bio) Ron E. Hassner, Anatomy of Torture (Cornell University Press 2022), ISBN 9781501762031, 200 pages. Torture works (sometimes). That rather non-committal declaration might risk me being labelled pro-torture by some. At least, that’s the feeling I get from my past experiences
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New Wine, Old Bottles? A Review of Gabriel Gatti's Desaparecidos (2022) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Joseph Wager
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Wine, Old Bottles? A Review of Gabriel Gatti’s Desaparecidos (2022) Joseph Wager (bio) Gabriel Gatti, Desaparecidos: Cartografías del abandono (Turner 2022), ISBN 9788418895371, 320 pages. Latin America’s experience of terror under dictators in the second half of the twentieth century and its robust civil-society response brought enforced
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Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights by Maria-Louiza Deftou (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Mark Weston Janis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights by Maria-Louiza Deftou Mark Weston Janis (bio) Maria-Louiza Deftou, Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights (Hart 2022), ISBN 9781509952434, 328 pages. Maria-Louiza Deftou, who teaches international law and international human rights law at the School of Law at the
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Contributors Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-04-27
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals and is editor of the Lynne Rienner Publishers’ book series “Power and Human Rights.” Arat has engaged in human rights activism both in the US and in her birth country, Turkey
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Theatre and Human Rights: The Politics of Dramatic Form Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Gary M. English
This project develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations of political, social, and economic abuses, this study focuses on the intricacies of dramatic form
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External Monitoring of Coercive Agents and the Murders of Journalists: A Cross-National Study of Journalist Killings, 1992–2018 Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Berkay Alıca
Targeted attacks on journalists are internationally condemned crimes, which not only undermine freedom of expression, but also symbolize an utter disregard for basic human rights. Yet, murders of journalists occur in all types of regimes, whether autocratic or democratic. This article explores the conditions that enable journalists to be subject to deadly attacks by state officials and unknown perpetrators
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The Ferguson Uprising, Shadow Reporting, and Human Rights Experimentalism Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Joel R. Pruce
In Fall 2014, frontline activists from Ferguson, Missouri traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to testify in front of the UN Committee Against Torture while the US government appeared before the body. The Ferguson to Geneva delegation participated in “shadow reporting,” which describes opportunities for impacted people to confront the state in a multilateral forum and challenge the state’s official account
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Milestone Anniversaries: Marking Time in International Human Rights Law Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Kathryn McNeilly
Milestone anniversaries noting the creation of treaties, documents and bodies have become a common part of international human rights law. While much scholarship has been stimulated by such anniversaries, little has considered anniversary noting as an activity in its own right. The present article addresses this. Examining United Nations and scholarly materials on selected anniversaries from the mid-twentieth
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Open Love, Religion, and Human Rights Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Lena Khor
This essay explores Henri Bergson’s idea of “open love” (a love that cares for all without preference, exclusion, or attachment), its relationship to religion, and its relevance for human rights. Open love is Bergson’s solution to the problem of “closed morality” (our tendency to care for our own kind over others). Reading Dave Eggers’ novel, What Is the What, alongside Bergson’s work reveals that
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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Aryeh Neier
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard Aryeh Neier (bio) Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), ISBN 9781108495639 (hard-back), 324 pages. Rasmus Sinding
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Contributors Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2023-02-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Berkay Alıca completed his M.A. in Political Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany in 2020. In 2021, he started working as a Ph.D. Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, as a member of the research project titled “Strengthening Regional Democracy.” His Ph.D. dissertation explores citizens’ and elites’
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Rereading Cain and Abel: New Approaches to Enforced Disappearances Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Ariel Dulitzky
The story of Cain and Abel, connected to enforced disappearances and the dictatorship has been used in Argentina by different stakeholders, many times for opposite purposes and with completely antithetical meanings. The Cain and Abel story is as complex as the story of enforced disappearances. Unpacking enforced disappearances while considering the biblical story allows for fresh readings of the binary
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Not Even with a Pandemic: The IMF, Human Rights, and Rational Choices Under Power Relations Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Francisco Cantamutto
Since the 1970s, neoliberalism has implied a deep reconfiguration of national economies and a significant increase in inequalities. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which considers itself above human rights, has been a central institutional vehicle in this change through its credits and conditionalities that regularly translate into violations of the human rights of debtor states’ populations
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Beyond Suffering, Towards Justice? Human Rights Films and the Critique of Humanitarian Culture Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Kate Nash
This article is an exploration of cultural codes of humanitarianism and human rights in feature-length films. The aim of the article is to contribute to the study of mediated human rights, which has been very little developed in comparison with work on humanitarian media and culture. The article draws on close readings of films and interviews with filmmakers and curators of human rights film festivals
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The Trafficking of Women in Nigeria: Is There a Role for Human Rights? Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Obiajulu Nnamuchi, Joy Ezeilo, Uju Obuka, Maria Ilodigwe, Christine Ike, Clara Obi-Ochiabutor
Even before the enactment of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act in 2003 (the first legal regime in Nigeria to prohibit and punish all forms of human trafficking), and its subsequent amendment in 2015, the number of women and children being trafficked from Nigeria had steadily been on the upswing. Strikingly, although civil society organizations continue
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The Disabled Contract: Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Matthew S. Smith, Michael Ashley Stein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Disabled Contract: Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry Matthew S. Smith (bio) and Michael Ashley Stein (bio) Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry, The Disabled Contract: Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality (Cambridge UP, 2021) ISBN 9781316591482, 314 pages. Traditional social
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Clamoring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution by Robert F. Barsky (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Amy Shuman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Clamoring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution by Robert F. Barsky Amy Shuman (bio) Robert F. Barsky, Clamoring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution (Hart Publishing Company 2021), ISBN 978-1509943159, 288 pages. Migration
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Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Dr. Linda Roland Danil
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith Dr. Linda Roland Danil (bio) David Livingstone Smith, Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (Harvard University Press, 2021) ISBN: 9780674545564 (hardback), 352 pages. In this book, David Livingstone Smith’s concern is how human
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Untouchable Perpetrators, Forgotten Rights, Transitional Justice, Corporate Accountability and Socio-Economic Rights Lessons from Argentina by Laura García Martín (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Rosario Figari Layús
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Untouchable Perpetrators, Forgotten Rights, Transitional Justice, Corporate Accountability and Socio-Economic Rights Lessons from Argentina by Laura García Martín Rosario Figari Layús, Ph.D. (bio) Laura García Martín, Transitional Justice, Corporate Accountability and Socio-Economic Rights Lessons from Argentina (Routledge
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Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Arpita Sarkar, Pok Yin S. Chow
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Arpita Sarkar (bio) and Pok Yin S. Chow (bio) Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Making Sense of Affirmative Action (Oxford University Press, 2020), ISBN 9780190648787, xiii+ 297pages. Equality1 and anti-discrimination2 are often considered non-negotiable rights and are
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The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally: Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearance and Arbitrary Detentions by Jeremy Julian Sarkin (review) Human Rights Quarterly (IF 0.985) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Klejda Mulaj
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