We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights. By Meg Jansen and Margaretta Jolly

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
Annie Pohlman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Bear Witness

Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights

Biography ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Schaffer ◽  
Sidonie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Life Narratives

scholarly journals Empathy for Social Justice: The Case of Malala Yousafzai

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Martínez García
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Creation

This essay demonstrates the effectiveness of human rights life narratives in garnering global support through their appeal to empathy. I focus on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s autobiographical texts and their impact on lives outside the written pages, which is first and foremost of an empathic nature. The essay pays special attention to her childhood blog and her teenage autobiography, looking at the narrative strategies employed in both. Autobiographical texts are never neutral, enabling people to see themselves under a new light, spurring them to act. The delicate balance between witnessing and involvement hangs on the creation of an emotional bond.

scholarly journals Negotiation for a free belonging: Home and human rights in Bhattarai’s Registän Diary

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Bhawana Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Human Rights Abuse ◽  
Economic Background

Home and human rights appear as interwined categories in narratives related to migration. However, these two categories have not been amply explored as proximate matters in any migration related texts such as Registän Diary. Home is not only a place for dwelling with varying frameworks but also many other things like a space, a feeling and a will to belong. Having a home, a place to dwell and belong, is one of the basic rights of human, specifically in line with the view that human rights are rights held by individuals simply because they are part of the human species regardless of their sex, race, nationality, and economic background. In this paper, the researcher, remaining within the paradigm of qualitative research, draws ideas from the scholars alike Pico Iyer, Salman Rushdie, Shalley Mallet, Lynn Hunt, Joseph R. Slaughter, examines the life narratives of the labour migrants to the Gulf from Nepal, argues and concludes that be it through the multifaceted depiction of home or cases of human rights abuse, Registän Diary negotiates a free belonging for all the citizens in a secure world.

scholarly journals Arxius personals de dones durant la dictadura: aproximació als fons documentals del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Xile.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luisa Ortiz ◽  
Oriana Bernasconi ◽  
Tamara Lagos
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
State Terrorism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Objective: To identify, describe and analyse the narratives present in the documents donated by women to Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH). Methodology: A mixed-method exploratory study which presents a descriptive statistical analysis of the collection of documents donated to the MMDH, according to the person making the donation and the genre; an analysis of the profile, rationale, origin and type of experience described in order to propose a classification; and the analysis of 37 documents selected in order to illustrate this classification. Results: Despite the severe restrictions imposed on political activity, association, and public discourse, and the profound damage that state terrorism inflicted on the social fabric, the personal documents of women bear witness to their fundamental role in the defence and promotion of human rights, as well as in the political, social and cultural mobilization against the dictatorship of Chile.

scholarly journals Salima Ghezali: The Quintessence of Subversive Creativity

1970 ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Abdelkader Chered
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
French Language ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Current State ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bear Witness

“Salima Ghezali is a subversive woman”. This is how the Algerian regime considers this teacher-turned-journalist, women’s rights activist and novelist, and a winner of a string of human rights awards. In her works of fiction and non-fiction as well as her radio shows, this Francophone writer has questioned the legitimacy of the Algerian postcolonial state and has reacted to the current state of political violence by taking up the pen in order to bear witness to the affliction of the Algerian people. Her ultimate intention is to depict the Algerian civil crisis (1992-1999) to a French-language reading public both at home and abroad, as well as to document, for future generations, the impact of this civil war on women in post-independence Algeria.

Human Rights and Law

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights
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