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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 history. The UDHR is said to have redefined global ethics...
“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 address historical atrocities and contemporary human rights abuses. In the...
Participedia: Responding to the Challenges of Democratic Participation
Electoral democracy is under increasing strain. In developed countries, disaffected citizens are too easily mobilized by authoritarian populists and nationalists, and electoral majorities leave exclusions, inequalities, and injustices unaddressed.
In developing countries, although significant strides...
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 policy
“The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...
A Hippocratic Oath for Historians
Against the backdrop of some of the troubling trends that have emerged in statist construction of public human rights history, the question must be asked: What are the ethical and professional obligations of public...