Duke University’s Summer Institute on Human Rights was lucky enough to have Jo Becker speak today, about how she approaches advocacy and teaching. A long-time veteran of Human Rights Watch, she heads the Children’s Rights Division and is writing a book that collects stories of how advocates work for human rights around the world. She [...]
Posts under ‘The Congo’
A meddling neighbor
Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times published an excellent piece last Wednesday on the relationship between Rwanda and the Congo, the site of one of the worst human rights situations currently on-going in the world. It’s impossible to understand the Congo without factoring in Rwanda and its own tragic history, most recently on display [...]
George Washington Williams
I’ve been slow in posting the iTunes videos of the Duke Human Rights Center events. This is a great one, featuring noted historian John Hope Franklin talking with CUNY scholar Lea Wernick Fridman about African-American politician, historian and journalist George Washington Williams. Williams had a fascinating, complicated life. A Civil War veteran, he fought with [...]
Is genocide special?
Recently, I spoke with a colleague about a proposal, made by students, that Duke University divest holdings in companies doing business in Sudan. The initiative is part of a international campaign to pressure the Sudanese government to, in the words of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, “end the genocide in Darfur.” A large part of [...]
