Browsing by Subject "Amnesty International"

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From Human Rights to Climate Justice: An Analysis of Publications from Amnesty International
(2023-05) Borchardt, Maia I.
Human rights are a powerful legal and rhetorical tool for guiding international systems. The introduction of an international human rights legal framework in the mid-20th century created a “universal” framework of rights, but not one that has gone uncontested. Emerging global issues, including climate change, challenge the efficacy of the human rights system as a force for comprehensive solutions and serve to highlight the debates between “equity” and “equality.” While some scholarship has offered insight into the human rights discourses surrounding climate change, research that elucidates how these discourses are formed and their effects on more traditional rights rhetoric is sparse. This thesis describes current scholarship on climate change in connection to human rights and takes Amnesty International as a case study for human rights organizations’ self-structured links to the issue, using qualitative description to note rhetorical patterns and gesture to these patterns’ broader implications. Ultimately, the thesis argues that for human rights to retain their rhetorical power in the context of climate justice, human rights need to either be centered in arguments that explicitly argue for climate justice or be reimagined to include a broader scope of interdependencies and relational frameworks.
Iton 77, issue 214
(Iton 77, 1997-12) Besser, Micha; Gilad-Yisre'eli, Amit
Rais Bhuiyan Interview
(2022-12-12) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious Studies
This interview is with Rais Bhuiyan, the founder of World Without Hate, who currently lives in Seattle, WA. Rais describes his youth in Bangladesh and his first career in the Bangladeshi military before coming to the US for school. He describes his experience of 9/11, after which he was the victim of Islamophobic gun violence, and then experienced food insecurity and medical debt due to his lack of medical insurance. He shares about his decision to try to save his attacker from death row with the help of Amnesty International and fellow humanitarians. Rais also talks about World Without Hate and its current projects. Content Warning: The following interview contains sensitive material. Please note that the interview includes description of graphic violence and hate crimes. These subjects will be discussed at 21:17 - 26:27 (in the transcript p. 5).