History of human rights

This thematic thread examines recent scholarship on the history of human rights. Curated by Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte.

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari is Allegra’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, as well as the chair of Allegra Lab Hki.

Pamela Slotte is an Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Finland), and a Senior Research Fellow.

The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s

March, 2015 / By Olivier Barsalou

Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of […]

March, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She is also an

March, 2015 / By David Fazzino

There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough

This is all over the newspapers: MPs have found that the United Kingdom detains ‘far too many [migrants] unnecessarily and for

November, 2014 / By Allegra Lab

We then feature another one of our recent thematic lists on Human Rights. However this time the list is a

November, 2014 / By Ukri Soirila

Stephen Hopgood has recently argued in The Endtimes of Human Rights [i] that human rights discourse has fallen into decay

November, 2014 / By Jennifer Curtis

In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio