The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the…
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Interview: Gabriele del Grande is Free
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human rights activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of the blog Fortress Europe….
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‘Pretend to be straight!’ What’s wrong with the world?
By Miia Halme-Tuomisaari with a comment by Antu Sorainen On February 26 the Guardian reported of new UK Home Office guidelines according to which…
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Bonded labour in Pakistan
The most common pattern for bonded labour in Pakistan is for a landlord or an employer to extend a loan to labourers, in advance…
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human rights’ recognition. But what…
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Press Release: Arbitrary Detention and Imminent Deportation of 147 Cubans
Press Release No. 2 | July 6, 2016 – 22:00 Quito-Ecuador Today in the early morning, between 2am and 3am, the Ministry of Interior…
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The Buddhist people smuggler
Since the 1950s, there has been a continuous flow of Tibetans fleeing across the Himalayas, seeking refuge in exiled communities in Nepal, India and…
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Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty
After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…
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EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we…
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#Review: Human Rights as War by Other Means. Peace Politics in Northern Ireland
There has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies. The debate is over…
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Anthropology & Human Rights – Version 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2C4D-nTUS8 The relationship of anthropology and human rights has by now been aptly illustrated: over the past decades we have moved from ‘engagement’ to…
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An Anniversary as a Laboratory
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…
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