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Why I read Deleuze
Read more: Why I read DeleuzeFor Ronald Bogue, A Thousand Plateaus is Gilles Deleuze's finest piece of work. In this blog, he explains why it's one-of-a-kind.
Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism
Benjamin P. Davis explores the influence of Edward Said on his novel reading of humanity in decolonial theory.
Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis
I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways
Three ways that human rights impact assessment can improve consistency between economic law and human rights law
By Caroline Dommen It is perplexing to observe how often States ignore their international legal commitments in one area of law when making rules in another. An area in which this is repeatedly plays out is trade policy – as…
Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Perspective
Meghan Campbell Despite a renewed global commitment to reduce extreme poverty and achieve gender equality, women throughout the world continue to disproportionately live in poverty. While the causes of women’s poverty are complex and inter-locking, the role of patriarchal cultural…
Human Rights Language in the 1890s
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have found that the concept of human rights was deployed in Britain in the 1890s. For instance, in 1898 Hypatia Bradlaugh-Bonner…