North Korea's human rights violations are unparalleled in the contemporary world. In Dying for Rights, Sandra Fahy provides the definitive account of the abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally, from its founding to the present. Dying for Rig…
Opfer von Krieg und Gewalt sind in den Medien allgegenwärtig, ob als Bilder von verstümmelten Soldaten, von verängstigten Kindern oder leidenden Zivilisten. Doch wer gilt eigentlich wann und warum als Opfer? Die Historikerin Svenja Goltermann erzählt, wie das Bild des Opfers, da…
Introduction : fighting for new rights / Clifford Bob -- Orphaned again? Children born of wartime rape as a non-issue for the human rights movement / R. Charli Carpenter -- "Dalit rights are human rights" : untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian state / Clifford Bob -- Applying the …
"[T]he aim of transitional justice is to address extraordinary wrongs committed -- the atrocities -- and the need to take measures to prevent their reoccurrence. The notion of corporate accountability and transitional justice is less about inventing new forms of justice mechanis…
