Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Chossudovsky
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The West ◽  
The Press ◽  
Peace Accords

AS HEAVILY-ARMED NATO TROOPS enforce the peace in Bosnia, the press and politicians alike portray Western intervention in the former Yugoslavia as a noble, if agonizingly belated, response to an outbreak of ethnic massacres and human rights violations. In the wake of the November 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, the West is eager to touch up its self-portrait as saviour of the Southern Slavs and get on with ‘the work of rebuilding’ the newly sovereign states.

Choreographing Violence: Arkadi Zaides’s Archive

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruthie Abeliovich
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The West ◽  
Occupied Territories

Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides’s solo dance Archive investigates the choreography of transgressions performed by Israeli fundamentalist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Screening fragments from a video archive documenting human rights violations in the occupied territories, this work invites Israeli spectators to sense the somatic impact of such actions and to consider the corporal resonance of the ongoing violence.

scholarly journals The Politics of Victimhood in Human Rights Violations: The Case of the Erased Residents of Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gornik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Compensation Scheme ◽  
European Court ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Permanent Residents

During the process of gaining national independence the Slovenian government unlawfully erased 25,671 individuals, mainly citizens of other republics of the former Yugoslavia from the Slovenian Register of Permanent Residents. In 2012 the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Kurić and others vs. Republic of Slovenia held that there had been a violation of the 8th, 13th and 14th Articles of the European Convention on Human rights. Following this judgement the Slovenian government adopted a compensation scheme for the Erased introducing the criteria determining conditions for their redress. The article reflects on the political and legal construction of victimhood and reveals the notions of political loyalty, legal conformity and territorial attachment as one of the most decisive elements of victimhood. It shows that the subjectivity of victims in the case of the Erased is not defined within the human rights discourse but is grounded in nationalist terms.

scholarly journals Rereading Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī’s Wisdom Approach to Justice and Injustice

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-316
Author(s):  
Ergin Ergül
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

This paper discusses the wisdom approach to justice and injustice of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī, one of the greatest Sufi sages of all times. This famous Sufi master, in his background, was an eminent social thinker, intellectual, and especially a law scholar. Thus, it is not surprising that he dealt with these terms, which were critical concepts in past political thought in the West and the East, extensively in his works. Firstly, as a method, the study traces these two concepts in al-Rūmī’s works and mainly Masnavi. Then it connects them with their contemporary use. It is understood from al-Rūmī’s definitions of them, metaphors and stories accompanied by messages to judges and politicians, that he uses the concept of justice, especially in the sense of today’s rule of law and protection of human rights, and injustice in the sense of human rights violations and totalitarian policies. When we reread and rethink al-Rūmī’s mentioned concepts in this way, his political wisdom can inspire and guide both today’s Islamic world and humanity to overcome their challenges in these crucial areas.

scholarly journals New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan Harb
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Western Media

This paper seeks to examine the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism that is currently present in reports of mainstream media and the implications it has on the lives of people in the Muslim community in Canada. The Western media has played a major role in both reviving historical Orientalist depictions of the 'other' and shaping the views of many ordinary Canadians about Muslims and people from the Middle East. Negative portrayals of Islam, and more specifically Muslims, have often been defended in the West under the principle of freedom of speech and the press, and this type of racism has been allowed to continue to exist in society under the contentious pretext of security. This paper draws on examples from two mainstream Canadian media outlets: The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine. The analysis of the Toronto Star is limited to articles that were published between June 2nd, 2006 and July 29th, 2008 about the Toronto 18 case. The Maclean's magazine analysis focuses on articles that were written between January 2005 and July 2006, many of which have also been at the center of a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

scholarly journals ETHNIC CLEANSING AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: CONCENTRATION CAMPS DURING THE BALKAN WARS OF 1992–1995

Defendologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Armand French ◽  
Goran Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
World War ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
Second World

The Balkan War of 1991–1995 in the former Yugoslavia was the worst war-relatedcrisis in Europe since the Second World War. Clearly, ethnic cleansing, the forceddisplacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians, became the signature event of thisconfl ict. The main vehicle for ethnic cleansing was the forceful removal and internment ofsectarian rivals into facilities that were generally crowded and where torture, rape, starvation,and killings were commonplace events. All parties, Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks,and Orthodox Christian Serbs, participated in these ethnic purges. This articlehighlights the nature of this unfortunate consequence of the Balkan Wars.

scholarly journals New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan Harb
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Western Media

This paper seeks to examine the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism that is currently present in reports of mainstream media and the implications it has on the lives of people in the Muslim community in Canada. The Western media has played a major role in both reviving historical Orientalist depictions of the 'other' and shaping the views of many ordinary Canadians about Muslims and people from the Middle East. Negative portrayals of Islam, and more specifically Muslims, have often been defended in the West under the principle of freedom of speech and the press, and this type of racism has been allowed to continue to exist in society under the contentious pretext of security. This paper draws on examples from two mainstream Canadian media outlets: The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine. The analysis of the Toronto Star is limited to articles that were published between June 2nd, 2006 and July 29th, 2008 about the Toronto 18 case. The Maclean's magazine analysis focuses on articles that were written between January 2005 and July 2006, many of which have also been at the center of a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

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