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.

Human Rights and Law

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