By Josh Pemberton[1] In 2015, a three year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi drowned after the boat carrying him and his family from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos sank. Turkish photographer Nilüfer Demir’s images of Alan’s lifeless body, lying facedown on the Turkish beach, were widely published, and generated public shock and […]
Gender Inequalities in Access to Information about Ebola as Gender-Based Violence
By Anjali Manivannan[1] Click here to access a PDF version of this article The current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa has infected 27,237 people—almost exclusively in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—of whom 11,158 died.[2] This public health emergency has significantly impacted the right to health and the right to freedom of expression in […]
Freeing Trade at the Expense of Local Crop Markets?: A Look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s New Plant-Related Intellectual Property Rights from a Human Rights Perspective
By Hannah Brennan & Burcu Kilic [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article I. Introduction On October 16, 2014, a new draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was leaked.[2] The TPP is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the governments of Australia, Brunei […]
Book Review: Conscientious Objection to Military Service in International Human Rights Law, by Özgür Çinar
By David J. Hotelling [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article Individuals with powerful ethical, moral, or religious beliefs can cause a quandary for political systems that seek to both protect individual consciousness and protect the State. The conscientious objector may hold a conviction or principle so strong that it causes the objector […]
HHRJ Annual Symposium – International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Successes and Challenges
When: Friday, March 27th, 2015 at Harvard Law School Sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Journal and Advocates for Human Rights With contributions from the Milbank Student Conference Fund Keynote Address by Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY: Where Has International Criminal Law Taken Us and Where Can it Go? with introductory remarks by Alex […]
Using Dias’ Legal Resources approach to Combat Manual Scavenging in India: A Human Rights Analysis
By Devarshi Mukhopadhyay and Ramya Krishna Tenneti [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article INTRODUCTION: RE-ANALYZING THE CASTE QUESTION In her essay “Can the Subaltern speak?” Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak raises questions about who speaks for whom when the subaltern of history becomes the subject of literary or any other kind of representation.[2] Spivak […]