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The blog’s subject and focus
This blog is about human rights, including political and economic human rights such as the right to participate in government (democracy being a subset of human rights), the right not to suffer poverty etc.
The blog looks at human rights from various perspectives: political philosophy, art (P.A.P. stands for politics, art, and philosophy), economics, law and statistics/data analysis.
The topic of human rights is in need of a data approach because the traditional way of dealing with it is way too anecdotal. There’s a page called “human rights statistics“, and another one called “human rights maps“, both of which you can click in the menu above.
Topics
Human rights is of course a very broad topic, and we interpret it broadly. You can find a list of topics covered in this blog here (where you can also select the blogposts that deal with a certain topic). This is a wordle.net image of the most frequent topics:
Since it’s difficult to cover the topic of human rights without discussing atrocities, cruelty and violence, there’s a content warning.
The top menu
- a link to a page with the posts which are essential for a good understanding of what this blog is about
- a page with a complete list of all posts
- a list of the most important themes or topics discussed on this blog and the posts related to these themes
- somewhat similarly, but the posts grouped, not by theme, but by geographical focus
- a list with the blog series, and the posts that make up these series
- to make this blog more useful, we’ve added a human rights tools page.
Obviously, there’s also a search function (on the right).
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Thanks to WordPress and NeoEase for making this blog possible.
Worldwide access to this blog
On account of the political content of this blog, some countries – notably China – block access to it. Many websites are hit by the “Great Firewall of China“, the largest censorship exercise in human history. You can check if a site is blocked in China on this webpage.
Dag Filip,
Gewoon overweldigend!! Wat een combinatie van mooie, vreemde en interessante beelden, woorden en ideeën. Ik voel me oh zo klein.
bedankt
Should we ban discrimination against fat people, ugly people and stupid people. It seems there are more of them than gays.
Barry, first of all, the number of people who are discriminated against is of secondary importance. If just one person is discriminated against, that’s just as bad as if 10 people are discriminated against. And, secondly, if fat or stupid people are discriminated against – i.e. if they are disadvantaged just because they are fat or stupid – than we should take action to protect them. (By the way, stupidity is much more difficult to measure and much more subjective than homosexuality).
However, the simple fact is that fat, stupid etc. people don’t suffer the same kinds of discrimination as gay people, or colored people, or people of a certain religion.