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Archives for February 2018

Civil Rights for Blacks, Human Rights for Whites (and Everyone Else)? Reclaiming the Black Human Rights Tradition

February 28, 2018 By Ajanet Rountree

by TONDRA L. LODER-JACKSON, PhD. Black History Month’s conclusion seems to me an opportune time for reflecting on America’s age-old tension between supporting civil rights versus human rights. As an African American woman educator, I have observed this tension among students, colleagues, community members, and the national media. The paraphrased statements below capture the essence of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Civil and Political Rights, Guest blogger, Human Rights of Special Groups, IHR Events, Minority Rights, North America Tagged With: Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, Jewish, Jim Crow South, NACW, National Holocaust Museum, Nazi Germany, symposium

The ‘Invisible’ Killer

February 27, 2018 By Aseel Hajazin

Simply because you cannot see air pollution, does not mean air pollution does not exists.  Often, pressing issues such as air pollution and other environmental problems such as soil contamination are dismissed because the effects of pollution are not always tangible until extreme environmental disasters occur. On December 5, 1952 the residents of London, England […]

Filed Under: Environmental Rights, government, Human Rights of Special Groups, Public health Tagged With: air pollution, Clean Air Act, environmental racism, health outcomes, WHO

Moving Beyond ‘Victim’

February 22, 2018 By Nicholas Sherwood

The normative value of universal human rights is constantly scrutinized both within the academy and in the field alike, as has been previously featured on the Institute for Human Rights Blog. Universal human rights, codified in international documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention of the Rights of the Child, […]

Filed Under: Africa, Civil and Political Rights, government, Human Rights of Special Groups, Human Trafficking Tagged With: Benin, cotton, cultural relativism, discourse, economics, international interference, living wage, TIPS report, universalism

Be a Real Man: Toxic Masculinity

February 14, 2018 By Lindsey Reid

What does it mean to “be a man”?  The traditional response would involve being dominant, physically strong, and emotionally closed off.  Some might see someone who is tough and intimidating, who never cries in front of others, and say that he is a “real man.”  Men in our society are pressured to fit perfectly into […]

Filed Under: Human Rights Issues, Public health Tagged With: gender equality, human rights, mental health, social change

Nonviolence as a Demonstration of Black Identity

February 9, 2018 By Ajanet Rountree

February is Black History Month. This blog series seeks to challenge the narrative of Black criminality, inferiority, and violence by presenting a counter-narrative that explores the ethic of nonviolence as a method for the acknowledgment of existence, rejection of exodus, and expression of identity for Blacks. Nonviolence is a demonstration of Black identity. It is an […]

Filed Under: Activism, Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights of Special Groups, International, Minority Rights Tagged With: black history, Dr. King, Fanon, nonviolence, oppression, Pacifism, social identity, violence, WEB Du Bois, white supremacy

Iran and the Conflict Over Human Rights

February 5, 2018 By Joseph Richardson

Throughout his work, the Iranian poet and academic Hasan Honarmandi vividly illustrated the predominant Iranian view of the West in the wake of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In his poem The West is Fast Asleep, Honarmandi claimed “[f]rom the land of glitter all happiness has left / Chains abound, but of faith it is […]

Filed Under: Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights of Special Groups, Middle East and North Africa, War/Peace Tagged With: cultural relativism, European Union, justice, protest, revolution, universalism

Identify: An Olympic Spotlight on Transgender Athletes

February 1, 2018 By Rebecca

The Olympics are often heralded as a celebration of international cooperation, but they also reflect the current political and cultural moment in which the games take place. Explained in the book The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, the first modern Olympics in 1896 were only composed of white males, mirroring those who had […]

Filed Under: Activism, Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights of Special Groups, International, Minority Rights Tagged With: gender bias, gender identity, IOC, The Olympics, trans/queer, transphobia

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