What Does Human Rights Look Like? The Visual Culture of Aid, Advocacy, and Activism

We live in a highly complex and evolving world that requires a fuller and deeper understanding of how modern technological tools, ideas, practices, and institutions interact, and how different societies adjust themselves to emerging realities of the digital age. This book conveys such issues with a fresh perspective and in a systematic and coherent way. While many studies have explained in depth the change in the aftermath of the unrests and uprisings throughout the world, they rarely mentioned the need for constructing new human rights norms and standards. This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts. Offers a systematic analysis of the lack of legal representation for middle- and low-income Americans The literature review provides essential context for students, researchers, and practitioners Describes current reforms and outlines a realistic agenda for access to justice challenge

“Seeking Justice, Strategically”

In his opinion piece, Ian Paisley takes to task the International Criminal Court (ICC) for, as he sees it, intervening in domestic processes of reconciliation at the expense of long-term prospects for peace. The peace versus justice paradox is not a new one and Paisley expresses a common criticism of justice mechanisms as disruptive of post-conflict, societal healing and the overwhelming hurdle of governing in the aftermath of violence. Missing from his analysis is a broader understanding of trends in international justice and accountability, of which the ICC is only one component. While the ICC is certainly not immune from criticism, a more apt judgment would take into account multiple layers of justice at work in post-conflict settings and to suggest ways to strategically leverage the specific qualities of the ICC for human rights purposes

Introduction: Minority Rights

The central thread woven through this Digest is the concept of vulnerability. Minority status, broadly construed, represents a core characteristic that carries with it particular human rights implications. Historically, minorities are frequently targeted for exploitation and scapegoated when things go badly. Without the capacity to protect themselves and without spokespersons to stand with them in solidarity, minority groups are specifically susceptible to gross exercises of power and abuse and too often denied access to channels through which to make claims and demand redress. Violations of minority rights are commonly structural in nature, as discriminatory practices are built into political and economic systems to deny fundamental rights, such as to vote or to own property. Violence and deprivation that disproportionately affect minority groups are symptomatic of the inequality and humiliation that human rights seek to remedy. Minority rights, as a category of rights, are intended to direct special attention to the plight of those people under attack by virtue of their vulnerability

Joel R. Pruce on The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present (Second Edition), by Micheline R. Ishay. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. 592pp.

A review of: The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present (Second Edition), by Micheline R. Ishay. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. 592pp

Moral Ambivalence Is No Recipe for Engagement

The bottom line is that the crisis in Syria is tragic and extremely complicated. Some of its more complex issues include the threat of ethnic conflict, refugee flows, Iran\u27s regional influence, and the impact of this uprising on other protests in the Arab world, ongoing and in the future. However, there are also several incontrovertible facts: the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the name of putting down a protest movement that turned violent, is responsible for at least 7,500 deaths and shows no signs of relenting

Human Rights and the War on Terror: Complete 2005 - 2007 Topical Research Digest

“9/11 changed everything.” Not really. In fact, there has been far more continuity than change over the past six years in both international and domestic politics. Nonetheless, human rights often have been harmed—although not by terrorism but by “the war on terror.

2020: Joel Pruce, Milestone Book Selection

Promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciencehttps://ecommons.udayton.edu/svc_milestone/1045/thumbnail.jp

The Potential for Visualizing Advocacy

In recent decades, museums have shifted from spaces for seeing to sites of action. Crafting transformative experiences in museum spaces has become a central aim of museum exhibitors, designers, and artists. This roundtable together with the roundtable, The perils for visualizing advocacy, asks what strategies and technologies of display work best to give museum visitors an experience of advocacy