scholarly journals RALF ALLEWELDT, RAPHAËL CALLSEN ET JEANNE DUPENDANT, DIR, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: TRI-NATIONAL WORKSHOP, TBILISI, SEPTEMBER 2011, NEW YORK, PETER LANG, 2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Mirja Trilsch ◽  
Éloïse Benoit
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
National Workshop

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugambi Jouet
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
Global History ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
American Society

Jouet begins his book by describing his work as a human rights lawyer representing poor prisoners in New York at the time of mass incarceration on a scale unprecedented in global history. He goes on to describe how the degeneration of American justice embodies troubling dimensions of American exceptionalism, including acute wealth inequality, systemic racism, anti-intellectualism, Christian fundamentalism, and chronic human rights abuses. While the word “exceptional” can imply greatness or superiority, American exceptionalism historically referred to how America is “exceptional” in the sense of “unique,” “different,” “unusual,” “extraordinary” or “peculiar.” Ironically, scores of Americans equate “exceptionalism” with their nation’s superiority when it might be its Achilles Heel—a self-destructive vicious circle threatening admirable dimensions of American society.

Human Rights Watch Arms Project—Chemical and Biological Weapons Program

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Chemical And Biological Weapons

Human Rights Watch is the largest U.S.-based independent human rights organization. It conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) includes five divisions, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the signatories of the Helsinki accords, and has four thematic projects: the Arms Project, the Women's Rights Project, the Children's Rights Project, and the Free Expression Project. HRW maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Dushanbe, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds.

scholarly journals The Soldiers of Songbun: Militarization, Human Rights Abuse and Childhood Experiences of North Korean Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Peter Steele
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Human Rights Abuse

North Korea is an enigma. The United Nations (UN) states that it is “…without parallel in the contemporary world …” in terms of abuse, exploitation and lack of civil rights. No other rogue state commands the attention and mystique as the isolated nation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Despite an increasingly prevalent international front, including warming relations with South Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons, everyday citizens remain hidden. Public displays of Olympic cheerleaders or the admittance of “K-Pop” stars across the Korean Demilitarization Zone (DMZ) distract from the widespread human rights abuses and public indoctrination that is second nature in the country. But this is no surprise; In the DPRK, the leader is above all else. While marginalized groups in other countries may be granted a voice by international organizations, the vulnerable in North Korea are obscured in the shadow of the great leader’s actions.

scholarly journals Punishment, Democracy and Transitional Justice in Argentina (1983-2015)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Arturo Zysman Quirós
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Sociology Of Punishment ◽  
State Of Affairs

Latin America has neither suffered the majority of mass atrocities in the contemporary world nor the worst of them but, after a sustained period of transition to democracy, it holds the record for the most domestic trials for human rights abuses. Argentina is an emblematic case in Latin America and the world. Due to the early development of its human rights trials, their social impact and their scale, it has a leading role in what is known as ‘the justice cascade’. Until recently, leading scholars in sociology of punishment have studied the penality of ‘ordinary crimes’ through causally deep and global narratives largely from the perspective of the Global North. State crimes and regional paths of transitional justice have been neglected in their accounts. This paper will question this state of affairs – or ‘parallelism’ – through an exploration of the punishment of both ‘common crimes’ and ‘state crimes’ in Argentina, thus contributing to the growing body of scholarship on southern criminology.

Documents and Source Material

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Israeli Occupation

This section comprises JPS summaries and links to international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials from the quarter spanning 16 May-15 November 2017. Fifty years of Israeli occupation was the focus of reports by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Oxfam that documented the ongoing human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Other notable documents include Israeli NGO Gisha and UNSCO reports on the ten-year Gaza siege, Al Jazeera's interactive timeline of the Nakba, and an exchange of letters between the ACLU and U.S. senators on anti-BDS legislation.

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