Tag Archives: Human Rights

History Slam Episode Eighty: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter

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http://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Alicia-Yamin.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham “Before I had my two children, I had a miscarriage.” This is how Alicia Yamin starts her new book Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter. By introducing the book in such a personal manner, Yamin, the Policy Director of the Francois-Xavier… Read more »

History Slam Episode Seventy-Five: Paper Cadavers

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http://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Weld.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham Between 1960 and 1996, the Guatemalan Civil War pitted the government against leftist rebel groups. Both during and after the war, there were accusations that government forces committed human rights violations against civilians. The government denied these allegations and claimed that there was no documentation to substantiate any of the claims…. Read more »

Bones, Ghosts and Human Rights: How Science Can Further Justice

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A public lecture by Luis Fondebrider, recorded at the University of Saskatchewan on February 10, 2014 Luis Fondebrider teaches in the Department of Legal Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. He is President of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and has been involved in international tribunals on political violence and human rights, focusing on the use of forensic anthropology in… Read more »

Modern slavery, environmental stress, and lingering international imperialism – unwinding the connections between intimately linked problems

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There are critical connections between modern slavery, environment and imperialism.

Remembering and Commemorating a Complicated Past

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In this post, I look at controversies surrounding a statue of Nellie McClung, due to her early-20th century support of eugenics.