The goal of the Human Rights Blogger is to share my personal, academic thoughts and opinions on different developments in international politics and policy. 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 increasingly influential American far-right and its harmful relationship with refugee and 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. In these blogs I will follow ongoing changes to the 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 must be publicized. The Human Rights Monitor will post reports and statistics 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 ability to be a very powerful tool of expression and activism. Throughout history, art immortalizes the words of its creator. Poetry specifically draws on intense human emotions to connect with the reader, in politics it can amplify voices of oppression, violence, and give individuals in vulnerable situations dignity and agency with the words they write.