Marching Toward a Massacre: The people of Sudan need the world’s help to protect them from their genocidal president.
August 11, 2021
Category: Human Rights
I’m a survivor of female genital cutting and I’m speaking out – as others must too
August 11, 2021
My aunt cut my genitals when I was seven years old. The culture of silence surrounding this FGM/C means laws alone won’t stop it
Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more
August 11, 2021
Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more
People, we have a problem. Or rather two problems. The first is a matter of definition: who or what is a human being, entitled to the rights spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? The second is the old mind-body split: what if these two components have different wills?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/08/universal-declaration-human-rights-turns-70
Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons
August 11, 2021
World War I exposed the world to the horror of gas attacks. But why do we draw the line there when other methods of killing prove so much more effective?
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Amnesty International: Child Soldiers
August 11, 2021
A human rights education resource on child
soldiers, based on a talk by a former child
soldier, Ishmael Beah. For use with young
people aged 11-14 in Citizenship, PSHE,
PSE, English or Art.
Podcast: One Night in Snake Park
August 11, 2021
Six episode Podcast series that explores, “South Africa’s xenophobic demons through the death of 14-year-old Siphiwe Mahori”
https://pod.link/1052444623/episode/65f2e4e778bfd2960de9e7919ae914f8
Ten surprising facts about humanitarian intervention
August 11, 2021
As is usually the case in world politics, the actual practice of humanitarian intervention is more complex, than we might think. Sometimes, states traditionally thought to oppose intervention might support it, as with Pakistan over Bosnia and China over Somalia. The reverse is also sometimes true – in 2011 Germany opted not to vote in favour of NATO-led intervention in Libya, whilst decades earlier, Norway – a well known champion of humanitarianism – condemned Vietnam for its intervention which ended a genocide in Cambodia that had accounted for a quarter of that country’s population.
Half-Truth and Reconciliation: After the Rwandan Genocide
August 11, 2021
Rwanda, Sundaram learned, was not the peaceful democracy it appeared to be. It was a state whose grip over the population subdued most citizens into silence or false flattery. Through the clarifying lens of this book, Rwanda appears not as a democracy making rapid progress after the horror of genocide, but as a disguised North Korea—a massively repressive dictatorship demanding slavish devotion to the leader, president Paul Kagame.
Rwanda & South Africa: a long road from truth to reconciliation
August 11, 2021
Reconciliation goes hand in hand with many other factors and generates many difficult questions. Who needs to be reconciled with whom? Who should initiate the process? Who should facilitate it? What should it look like? How do national and interpersonal movements towards reconciliation intersect, if at all? Can you reconcile when there’s no freedom? Justice? Equality? Redress?
https://theconversation.com/rwanda-and-south-africa-a-long-road-from-truth-to-reconciliation-75628
How a Nation Reconciles After Genocide Killed Nearly a Million People
August 11, 2021
The premise is simple and extraordinary in its efficient enforcement: Every able-bodied Rwandan citizen between the ages of 18 and 65 must take part in community service for three hours once a month. The community identifies a new public works problem to tackle each month.
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