In a startling twist of events, Guatemala's highest court overturned the recent ruling against former head of state, Efrain Rios Montt, on counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. When the guilty verdict was determined a couple weeks ago, joyful singing and dancing erupted outside the courthouse, and as war...

News this week from Syria contains images and reports of people shot and killed. Violence in a civil war continues. Thousands of families and individuals are fleeing the country in search of safety. President Obama posted a YouTube video this week noting the $155 US million to aid...

This week, Alberto Fujimori, the ex-president of Peru currently in prison for crimes against humanity, released a painting he made from jail to be circulated to the public. The image is a colorful self-portrait which shows him smiling and looking over his shoulder. Handwritten text on the side of

I recently delivered a keynote lecture titled "The History and Challenges of Global Human Rights" for a group of Massachusetts teachers. These were not teachers who teach human rights, per se, but who attended the workshop to become more knowledgeable. My task: to provide a sweeping overview of the history...

During the Armenian genocide in 1915, an unknown number of young Armenians survived because they were adopted as daughters and sons of Muslim families. Many lived the rest of their lives with Turkish, Kurdish, or Arabic names and identities to escape the forced deportation and systematic murders of the Armenian...

The Kony 2012 campaign does not do enough to deliver effective social change.

How could it?

The film depends on a simplistic story line, which the filmmakers claim has been key to the video's success. Most of the young fans of the Kony 2012 video have no idea...

The poster that the Kony 2012 campaign would like to plaster around the country, and has included in a $30 action kit, juxtaposes Joseph Kony, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolf Hitler. Linking the three figures aims to make parallels throughout history, and emphasize evil. As if they were exactly the...