The reality of the Assad regime is ugly and always has been. There's no sugar coating it. Assad is not a benevolent dictator trying to improve Syria or...
The meaning of HUMAN RIGHTS is rights (such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.
There have been numerous examples of human rights violations across the entire world. The most recent case of the deportation and displacement of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is an example of a breach of human rights. This is because Myanmar did not provide these people with the essential means ...
can enrich the discipline as a whole. One way of addressing this dilemma is to suggest that anthropologists also attend to the question of what can constitute a productive subject for the anthropology of human rights, apart from transnational activism and outright human rights violations. We can ...
Petersen HD, Vedel OM. Assessment of evidence of human rights violations in Kashmir. Forensic Sci Int 1994;68(2):103-15.Petersen HD, Vedel OM: Assessment of evidence of human rights violations in Kashmir. Forensic Sci Int 1994, 68(2):103-115....
The UNGP 18 encourages businesses to consider collective leverage approaches, including disengagement from a business relationship within the value chain, to be adopted by companies operating in a particular country if they face systemic human rights violations. The Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty...
focus, the primary contribution for human rights conscious criminologists has been overwhelmingly empirical, intended to ‘unpack the involvement of various powerful actors in violations’ (Stanley2011, p. 175). These steps towards a criminology with a critical perspective on the state have coincided ...
of violations ofCharterrights are adjudicated strictly through Canada’s court system, human rights complaints are generally dealt with through a special human rights commission system. In certain circumstances, however, complaints under theHuman Rights Actcan make their way to the regular court system...
Examples of such strategies abound. In September 2021, for instance, U.S. Border Patrol agentsappeared to whip Haitians in Del Rio, Texasamid a crackdown at the border that resulted in thelargest mass expulsionof asylum seekers in recent U.S. history. Between January 2021 and F...
The arbitrary detentions of the U.S. at home and abroad tell the world that the country is in every sense an "empire of arbitrary detention" with the worst human rights violations.The U.S. should face up to and reflect upon its own deplorable record with regard to democracy and human ...