Where is the Other Half of the Story?: Erasures and Silences in the Human...
Archives, as repositories of collective memory, hold immense power. They are the guardians of narratives that shape our collective understanding of history, society, and...
Why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wasn’t adopted until 1948
The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN general assembly has been celebrated as a defining moment in international...
“We Were not Treated as Human Beings:” A Memoir on Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
I teach a course on historical atrocities, truth-seeking and reconciliation processes. Truth and Reconciliation after Atrocity examines truth and reconciliation commissions established globally to...
A call to Canadian Parliamentarians to take concrete measures to implement the UN Declaration...
A call to Canadian Parliamentarians to take concrete measures to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in Canadian law and...
The Right to Development and the Fight Against Racism
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
Excepts of Statement by Bonny Ibhawoh (Chair, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development) at the International Dialogue on Promoting...
The Right to Development and the Fight Against Racism
Excepts of Statement by Bonny Ibhawoh (Chair, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development) at the International Dialogue on Promoting and Protecting...
Can we trust the Natives? Researchers, Indigenous Peoples, and Scholarly Authority
There is renewed debate over interpretation and authority in constructing histories of indigenous peoples. Some historians such as David Silverman have critiqued sustained collaborative...
Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege in a Divided World
Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege - A commentary on Eric D. Weitz,A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the...
“Dad, what did you do for racial justice?”
Years from now, kids will ask their parents, "Dad, what side were you on during the great protest for racial justice of 2020?" Can...
Do truth and reconciliation commissions heal divided nations?
As long as unresolved historic injustices continue to fester in the world, there will be a demand for truth commissions.
Unfortunately, there is no end...
The Paradox of Democracy in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
Democracy can be a messy business. Liberal democratic reforms often bring new freedoms and allow for the opening up of civil societies. But...
Seven Years into the Syrian Conflict: Pondering the Pity of War
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
As the war in Syria enters its seventh year with no immediate prospects of ending, the words of the British war poet,...
The Dawn of a Post-Human Rights World?
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
With all the talk about alternative facts and fake news, it is perhaps time to ponder whether the global rise of reactionary...
Xenophobia, Immigration Restrictions and the Dawn of a Post-Human Rights World
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
Across the world, we are witnessing the gradual erosion of the gains of the post-World War II human rights movement. The clearest...
The Future of Human Rights
By Bonny Ibhawoh
What is the future of human rights? My hope is that as the world becomes more sensitive to human rights violations, we...
Public Talk: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
By Bonny Ibhawoh
Speaking on the topic: "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Re-imagining Human Rights in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding" at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights...
Empowering Women and the Nation: Lessons from Rwanda
By Bonny Ibhawoh
In the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report for 2015, an annual ranking of the world's most equal countries for men and...
How Should we Respond to Terrorism?
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
Recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Belgium have prompted questions about how ordinary citizens should respond to terrorism. Fear, anger, anxiety? I...
Our Troubled and Conflicted World
By Bonny Ibhawoh,
In our 24 hour news media circle, it is difficult to escape the stark and often depressing reality that we live in...
Truth and Reconciliation in Canada: Lessons from the South African TRC
By Bonny Ibhawoh
After 6 years of deliberations, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week released its long-awaited report. The TRC was established following...