Talking Rights

With Secretary Clinton’s trip to Africa highlighting the fighting that continues in the Congo, an opinion piece in the Washington Post is calling for American troops to support the tiny UN force.
Michael O’ Hanlon, at Brookings writes:
If the situation is to improve, we need to do the one thing that is required above all others [...]

I’m celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the first international forum on Archives and Human Rights, held in the Mexican Senate in Mexico City. The forum has brought together archivists, human rights groups, representatives of truth commissions, policy makers and universities from a number of countries, including South Africa, [...]

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 Mexican [...]