The goal of the Human Rights Blogger is to share my personal and academic thoughts on different developments in international politics and policy, giving specific attention to human rights abuses and ongoing atrocities. The blog is dedicated to reporting and raising awareness specifically in these four key areas:
The rights of refugees and policy changes that affect them.
Monitoring human rights abuses and humanitarian crises around the world.
The rise in populism worldwide and the American far-right and its harmful effect on human rights.
Political Poetry: the art of using humanizing and expressive language to engage in socio-political activism and give a voice to the most vulnerable and deserving people.
Blogs
Refugee Rights
The international community not only has a moral obligation, but also a legal and democratic duty to protect refugees regardless of circumstance. Far too often, countries in the West fall short of this responsibility. These blogs will highlight various refugee crises around the world and offer policy recommendations to fulfill our obligations as moral nations and humans.
The American Far-Right
Growing up in America and in suburban conservative Indiana, I have had my fair share of encounters with the American Far-Right. As such I have dedicated much of my undergraduate research and dissertation to the issue. This phenomenon is not experienced solely in the US, either, populism is gaining influence worldwide.
In these blogs I will follow ongoing changes to the party/phenomenon and publish my thoughts and findings here.
Human Rights Monitor
Human rights abuses are amongst the gravest crimes that can be committed, and yet they occur all the time. It is of the utmost importance that we document and record these atrocities.
The Human Rights Monitor column will post reports on ongoing crises involving human rights abuses, war crimes, and other breaches of international law, in an informative effort to raise awareness.
Political Poetry
Poetry has the transformative power to be a vital tool of inspiration, hope, and activism. Throughout history, art has immortalized the words of its creator. Poetry, specifically, draws on intense human emotions to connect with the reader, and in politics it can amplify voices of oppression, violence, and give individuals in vulnerable situations dignity and agency with the words they write. The aim of this column is to do just that.