Human Rights

Modelling the United Nations in Bristol

Aditi Verma • Nov 2 2014 • Articles

Students from UWE Bristol, the University of Bristol, and Sciences Po simulated whether sovereignty should be conditional in the face of severe human rights violations.

In Celebration of Senseless Acts of Kindness

Mukesh Kapila • Oct 26 2014 • Articles

There are many blogs on humanitarianism & development. They tend to be overly-technical, narrowly prescriptive, and circulate within the international aid industry. The Flesh and Blood blog will offer something different.

Tracing the Threads: Queer IR and Human Rights

Anthony J. Langlois • Oct 26 2014 • Articles

Human rights and queer theory compel us to view matters in a different light. It is this potential to cut across established ideas that makes sense of the challenge to develop a queer account of human rights.

Eight Substrates for a Possible Universal Axiology

Nayef Al-Rodhan • Oct 21 2014 • Articles

An agenda that reinforces and demonstrates the history of cultural cross-pollination is key to framing today’s era of continued globalisation in positive terms.

Interview – Steven Pinker

E-International Relations • Oct 10 2014 • Features

Professor Pinker answers questions on mankind’s tendency toward violence, Darwinism, the rights of women in Islamic societies, and his new book – The Sense of Style.

World Order, Human Rights, and the Security Council Veto

Aidan Hehir • Sep 2 2014 • Articles

The Security Council is an unedifying conflation of craven geopolitics. The veto power of the P5 is incompatible with the protection and promotion of human rights.

Review – The Endtimes of Human Rights

Daniel Golebiewski • Aug 22 2014 • Features

Hopgood doesn’t write for novices, nor is his book path-breaking, yet it offers serious, disturbing, food for thought about the concept of Human Rights in transformation.

Review – Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights

Shazelina Z. Abidin • Aug 21 2014 • Features

Freedman’s vivid accounts of human rights violations and the failure of the UN machinery offers an emotional depth that many other books on the subject lack.

Review – The Massacres at Mt. Halla

Peter Brett • Jul 15 2014 • Features

Hun Joon Kim’s analysis represents a welcome and well-written, but ultimately very partial, view of the search for ‘comprehensive truth’ in South Korea.

Why the Continuing Siege on Reproductive Rights?

Rebecca J. Cook • Jul 13 2014 • Articles

Understanding attacks on reproductive rights requires examining historical, psychological, legal, religious, & political perspectives to find answers.

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