By Ram Kumar Bhandari “They came at night, way back in June 1999, and took my husband away. I was pregnant at that time. Amit, my only son, is 18 now and often asks where his father is and when he will finally come home. What can I tell the boy? My children have lost […]
Justice and Humanitarian Support for Yezidi Survivors
By Pari Ibrahim In 2014, ISIS terrorists entered the city of Sinjar in Iraq, with the well-articulated, written, pre-meditated plan to eradicate the Yezidi people. Yezidis are members of an ethno-religious minority group living in northern Iraq. We practice a unique monotheistic religion that is different from Islam, and our people have been persecuted for […]
Online Symposium on Transitional Justice
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CONTEXT Online Symposium, 2017 Truth, reconciliation, accountability, and reparation are generally identified as the core components of transitional justice. When it is not politically or practically feasible to hold perpetrators of human rights violations criminally accountable, is it acceptable to settle for alternative–more limited–forms of accountability for the sake of advancing the […]
Book review: “Images and Human Rights: Local and Global Perspectives,” Nancy Lipkin Stein and Alison Dundes Renteln (eds.)
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 […]