by Robin Kirk | Mar 12, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Yesterday, I was included in a panel with James Dawes, who teaches literature at Macalester College. This was at Elon College, hosted by Safia Swimelar, who is teaching a human rights class and helping her students put on a performance of Ariel Dorfman’s Speak...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 3, 2010 | Robin Kirk
A friend shared with me Glenn Greenwald’s post on Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s sickening new ad campaign. Don your Hazmat suit, gloves, helmet and goggles and watch it here. In the ad, they describe Eric Holder’s Department of Justice as the...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 2, 2010 | Robin Kirk
A much-needed oped in Sunday’s New York Times, pointing out that the government’s investigations of legal misconduct on the part of John Yoo and Jay Bybee have not been matched by inquiries into how medical professionals designed and implemented torture....
by Robin Kirk | Feb 24, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Thanks to Kay Reibold of the Montagnard Human Rights Organization for forwarding on to me Joshua Kurlantzick’s piece, The Downfall of Human Rights. As I commented on the Newsweek site, I value the analysis, since it’s important to evaluate how — or...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 20, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Today, we hosted Dr. Jeffrey Sonis from UNC-Chapel Hill. He’s been studying the international human rights trials in Cambodia, to see if trials produce measurable effects on the mental health of victims who suffer from trauma (or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,...
by Robin Kirk | Sep 17, 2009 | Robin Kirk
The Duke Human Rights Center was lucky to be a part of an event marking the end of an art exhibition examining the human cost of capital punishment. Malaquias Montoya, the artist, is well known for his political work (and his images are familiar to me from having...
