On October 21, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe,…
human rights
Call for writers for culture and women’s rights blog
The global feminist blog Gender Across Borders, in partnership with Violence is Not Our Culture: the Global Campaign to End Violence…
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about…
Religious and secular foundations of human rights
A post at the New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone" reflects on the differences between religious and secular underpinnings…
Book review: Bridging the maximalist-minimalist divide
Must human rights be grounded in a religious or metaphysical worldview in order for them to be understood and implemented…
Carter Center Forum on Religion, Belief and Women’s Rights
April 3rd marks the first day of the 2011 Carter Center Human Rights Defenders Forum. The theme for this year’s…
Humanity
From the opening statement of the editorial collective of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development:, published…
What Esther did for her people
Early 2011 will mark the first US television broadcast of the critically acclaimed documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. …
The stories we tell
In a recent Newsweek article, “Saint Sarah,” Lisa Miller chronicles Sarah Palin’s iconic status among evangelical Christian women in the…
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School…