About this Blog
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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.
Header image
The boy in the header image is a young Buddhist monk in the village of Khungri, Pin Valley, India (in the Himalaya, close to the Chinese – or should I say Tibetan - border).
He didn’t give me permission to use this image as a blog header, but that’s because I took the picture long before I had a blog, and also because it took me about 10 days of travel to get where he lives, and I don’t want to do that again if not absolutely necessary.
