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Like Seamus Heaney’s republic of conscience, international human rights law is wrought from ‘tears’ we wept when it became clear what we were capable of…
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1 1/3 where / the rift is, the break is
In its bones international human rights law holds a story that has been retold again and again over millennia. Like Cinderella, its story ‘can be told…
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2 1/8 grand proofs of injustice
Do you remember our ‘passage from the other world’? The shadowy darkness. And the flickering light overhead. Taking on, or rather distorting, the voice…
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2 5/8 Ghosts linger and walk-again
If international law’s Song of Liberty, the UN Charter, officially recognised peoples and persons’ intrinsic worth (and our states assume obligations to…
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2 4/8 who has human status?
Before the beginning of the 20th-century, The Tyger or maker of ‘deadly terrors’ was already live. Cranked up by centuries of colonialism, racialism was…
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2 2/8 who has human status?
Where did this come from? Our inclination to disregard each other’s intrinsic worth? And weigh up our relative worth on the basis of race, colour…
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sarah field
2 3/8 who has human status?
Though most of colonialism’s wounds remain ‘outside history’, one was at least acknowledged: the systemised trade of human beings, bought on the African…
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1 3/3 where / the rift is, the break is
Like Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, the darkness in which international human rights law is proved is a persistent and disturbing presence, Ghosts linger…
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1 2/3 where / the rift is, the break is
To step into the shadows and get used to the half-light and the failing-light is to meet those stilled by suffered injustice. Like the suffering of the…
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starring the dark
starring the dark
bringing international human rights law alive with a little help from the imaginings of poets and storytellers; join the journey; be the first :)
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