Human Rights & Human Welfare

Human Rights & Human Welfare runs review essays and book notes, as well as hosting roundtable discussions to which Professor Ackerly contributes.  See her contributions below:

• “A Rights Based Approach to Global Justice”: “There has already been a military response to the Ivory Coast. Should we wait to reflect on global injustice until we see the graphic images of genocide and tragedy elsewhere, or can we use a rights-based lens to care about global injustice as part of our everyday lives?”
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• “The Hearts of Minds and Citizens”: “If the US contributes increased military support to Guatemala under the premise of curtailing the drug trade, it could inadvertently further destabilize this already politically unstable country … Concerns about destabilization in Guatemala (and Central America more generally) and the role of this destabilization in facilitating the drug trade have led the Economist to suggest that the solution is to increase military foreign aid to Guatemala.”
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• Summer Research by Tristan Call, an Anthropology graduate student and member of the Transdiciplinary Initiative on Environmental Systems (TIES) course provides an update on the Guatemala situation referenced in “The Hearts of Minds and Citizens” post above.
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• “The Right Side of the Coin: Focus on the Human Rights of the People, Not the Failure of States”: “If people do not have political power—that is, if their governments are not accountable to their people—then the focus of US foreign policy on “failed states” is misplaced. Rather, we have a national security interest in a foreign policy that is focused on enabling populations to assert their human rights and hold their governments accountable.”

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Internship Opportunities

1. Green Corps has a new job posting, the early application deadline is Jan. 20th, 2017 that combines classroom training on advocacy and organizing skills with real-world experience. They partner with established groups like Environment America and the Wilderness Society to build and mobilize public support for their campaigns.
2. At Idealist some activist organizations post their internship opportunities.
3. Summer internship opportunity in Nashville, working for Metro Council.  The description is: “The Calvert Street Group has immediate openings for campaign managers/coordinators in its Nashville, Tennessee office.   Internships will be unpaid, and CSG supervisors will work with your learning institution and/or professor to assist in receiving academic credit.”
4. Subscribe to the Resource-Net list-serv of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) to receive weekly information on jobs in the field of women’s rights in English