Si no contamos con mejor información, no podremos aprender por qué persiste la actividad policial basada en prejuicios raciales, y qué podemos hacer al respecto. English, Français
A UN committee has recommended that the United States set up a national human rights institution. But why are US government officials resisting the idea?
Mientras los críticos denuncian la hipocresía de Estados Unidos debido a la publicación del informe de su Senado, tenemos que repensar si la hipocresía no podría tener alguna virtud y si es que podría ser mejor que otras alternativas. English
While critics cry hypocrisy over the recent US Senate report on torture, we need to rethink whether hypocrisy might have some virtue and if it might be better than some alternatives. Español
The US cares chiefly about stability in the DRC, rather than promoting Rwandan or Ugandan national interests. Musavuli’s analysis of America’s failure to apply the principles of R2P to the DRC does not take this into account, and understates recent US policy changes. A contribution to the openGlob
The Obama administration is concerned with the prevention of mass atrocities mainly when it is in alignment with US interests. However in the case of the deadliest conflict in the world where US allies are the aggressors, R2P is rarely if ever mentioned or invoked. A contribution to the openGlobal
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as applied in Libya promoted regime change and western interests. Resistance to a proposed intervention in Syria shows emerging powers and public opinion will not accept an ends justify the means logic, and the US ‘exceptionalism’ that is said to justify it. A c
Although it is certainly of intellectual interest that elites and masses differ in rights awareness, it is uncertain that mobilizing the masses around rights or further informing elites about them will in fact improve rights in practice. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debates on Emerging P
