Towards an Anthropological Analysis of the Human Rights Worldview
In ‘Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy’, posted on this blog on August 21-24, Jayne Blayton states that ‘human rights reports provide an exclusive explanatory framework...
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Just before the summer break, I attended a gathering in a Dutch pub in the Hague, the so-called Café Humanitaire organized by the Dutch NGO Platform PSO and the Disaster Studies Department of...
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The Ethic of Refusal: (or) the inability to cope with powerlessness in the...
I had to fight back some tears when listening to Jaoa telling me about that dreadful moment when the UN airlifted him and his colleagues from a burning Dili, while leaving thousands of Timorese behind....
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