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Most of the different daily posts that appear on this blog are organized into so-called “blog series”: for example, now and again we publish a post that’s called “human rights facts: …”, or “political jokes: …” etc. Although some posts don’t belong to a specific series and are “one-offs”, most do. If you happen to stumble on one post of a specific series – for example because Google led you there – then you may find the other posts of the said series equally interesting. If so, just click on the name of the series below and all posts belonging to that series will be displayed (further down the page some information about what these series are about).
Human rights ads: some inspiring ads made by human rights advocates (mostly but not exclusively by Amnesty International)
Human rights and international law
Human rights cartoons: editorial cartoons, used as opportunities or excuses to discuss the often less humorous reality of human rights violationsHuman rights facts: data, numbers, statistics, graphs and anecdotes about human rights
Human rights images: collections of images, photos, signs, posters, adverts etc., grouped by types of rights violations
Human rights maps: maps about human rights and about the differences between countries and continents
Human rights nonsense: as a passionate activist for human rights, I’m obliged to point to the ways in which the language of human rights is used to push nonsense; human rights nonsense devalues the whole system of human rights, and has to be ridiculed mercilessly if we want to preserve what is good about human rights
Human rights poems: well-known and less well-known poems about human rights
Human rights quotations: quotes about human rights, often with extensive commentary
Human rights stories: excerpts of novel or plays with an original perspective on human rights problems
Iconic images of human rights violations: an iconic image of human rights violations is something very powerful: it can symbolize a certain human catastrophe, and ingrain it in the human mind; it keeps alive the memory of the event, and educates people about human rights, more than history or story-telling can ever do (icon: “an important and enduring symbol”); more human rights images here
Lies and statistics: examples of the abuse of statistics; I don’t think it’s a good idea to be blinded by love, and I apply that to my love for statistics, so if you’re tempted to take the statistics on this blog (or elsewhere) too seriously, take a look at this
Limiting free speech: commentary about different cases of (un)justified limits on the freedom of speech
Measuring democracy: posts about the best ways to measure how democratic democracies are
Measuring human rights: posts about the best ways to measure progress in the field of human rights
Moral dilemmas: “dilemma”, from Late Greek dilēmmat-, dilēmma, probably back-formation from Greek dilēmmatos involving two assumptions, from di- + lēmmat-, lēmma assumption; a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice; a dilemma is having to make a choice one does not want to make
Political artists: songs and graphic art of artists with an interest in politics and human rights
Political graffiti: insights from often anonymous artists/”philosophers” using an unconventional stage for their free expression
Political jokes and funny quotes
Political t-shirts: very much like political graffiti, but then on a shirt
Political Monty Python Sketches
Satellite evidence of human rights violations
The compatibility of freedom and equality
The most absurd human rights violations: accounts of some of the most absurd human rights violations reported in the press
What is democracy?:commentary about different aspects of contemporary democracy, including what it should be and isn’t yet, what it is and shouldn’t be, and what it is believed to be but isn’t
Fun stuff: some more fun on top of the human rights cartoons, the political jokes, the political Monty Python sketches … (see above)
