Tag: Human Rights

What Happens to Guatemalan Children After Deportation

What Happens to Guatemalan Children After Deportation

Detention, deportation, and the cost of return for Guatemalan children Lauren Heidbrink Art by Gabriela Afable. Used with permission. Camila was fourteen when she was deported from Houston to Guatemala. It was her first time on an airplane. When the chartered plane landed at Guatemala 

The digital arms race

Can viral videos inhibit police brutality?

Contested Foundations

How 20th-century debates reveal enduring tensions at the core of the human rights project.

The Dead Negev Doctrine

By manipulating law and geography Israel is dispossessing the Bedouins of their historic lands.

As Bad As Death

For Syrians, military strategies of food deprivation, siege, and starvation are both present and past.

Making a Home for the Disappeared

As the Peruvian state uncovers mass graves, relatives find ways to honor their missing loved ones.

Embodying History

How Fred Korematsu’s story reveals history’s evocative and empathetic power.

Searching for Social Change

Decades after the truth and reconciliation process, South Africans are still seeking justice.

Galaxies of Memory in the Americas

What mysterious deaths and memory struggles in Chile can teach the U.S.