Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, examines the trials…
Law’s fragile state
United Nations
Reading religious freedom in Sri Lanka
As several contributors to this forum have pointed out, legal provisions regarding religious freedom do not emerge from history fully…
The Rubicon is in Egypt: An interview with Azza Karam
Azza Karam is the Senior Culture Advisor at the United Nations Population Fund, where she has pioneered efforts to make…
Religion and the United Nations
The September issue of CrossCurrents, co-edited by Azza Karam and Matthew Weiner, examines the relationship between religion and the United…
Mapping religious landscapes
This summer in Kenya I was able to observe one such community health asset mapping project in the informal settlement…
Religion and women’s rights: strange bedfellows?
While in the past women’s human rights activists have admitted a certain skepticism about religion, my recent experience at the…
Rehabilitating religious rights talk
In December, we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations General…