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 […]
#Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age – REDUX
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent
Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?
Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past
When Humans Become Migrants
The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created
Youth Mobility, Bondage and Freedom in Cameroon, C.1940s-C.2000: National and Transnational Perspectives
On Sunday 7 July 2015, the Cameroon Radio and Television in its weekly Sunday Program, Cameroon Calling, broadcasted what shocked
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Documentary film. 2015. Produced and researched by: Katarzyna Grabska,
History of human rights Threads
Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the
Book Launch
The University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’
Introducing ‘Textbook Narrative of Origins’
Where does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this