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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989160
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“The idea of human rights—the quest to craft a universal bundle of attributes with which all societies must endow all human beings—is a noble one. The problem with the current bundle of attributes lies in their inadequacy, incompleteness, and wrongheadedness. There is little doubt that there is much to celebrate in the present human rights corpus just as there is to quarrel with.”Human rights are running out of present participles. The recent scholarship on the future of human rights includes books such as Rescuing Human Rights, Decolonizing Human Rights, Reinventing Human Rights, Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era, as well as articles like “Emancipating human rights: Capitalism and the common good.”2 The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallEmpowering Human Rights for Revolutionary Change2026-04-28text/htmlen-USEmpowering Human Rights for Revolutionary Change2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1646562026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Beyond Territorialization? State Constructions of the Indigenous Subject of Rights in Multicultural Colombia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989161
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“Although there are no longer colonial castes, a juridical idea of the Indian persists in contemporary Colombia, wherein the state ultimately continues to be the one to define who is Indigenous, according to which criteria and in conformation with which requisites, and which special rights they can exercise.”1During the 1980s and 1990s, numerous countries in Latin America adopted multicultural reforms that recognized Indigenous peoples as bearers of distinct cultures and granted them a series of ethnic rights.2 Of these countries, Colombia is widely considered to surpass “all others in its radical stance on Indigenous matters” due to both the number and breadth of rights granted to Indigenous groups in the 1991
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallBeyond Territorialization? State Constructions of the Indigenous Subject of Rights in Multicultural Colombia2026-04-28text/htmlen-USBeyond Territorialization? State Constructions of the Indigenous Subject of Rights in Multicultural Colombia2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1171882026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Confronting Historical Injustices: The Politics of Gay Reparations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989162
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Like few others in recent times, the idea of historical injustices has captured the imagination of the human rights community.1 It’s hard to overlook the eclectic range of experiences that have been labeled historical injustices—from widely-recognized human rights calamities, like slavery, Indigenous genocide, and the Holocaust, to more controversial ones, such as sexual violence in times of war, forced religious conversion, political persecution, and colonialism. Equally remarkable is the diverse set of academic disciplines that have contributed to discussions about how to address the legacies of historical injustices, including human rights law, memory studies, contemporary history, economics, philosophy, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallConfronting Historical Injustices: The Politics of Gay Reparations2026-04-28text/htmlen-USConfronting Historical Injustices: The Politics of Gay Reparations2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1313522026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28The Right to Access Sport for All in Europe
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989163
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“The idea of sport as a human right” is understudied in the literature on sport as well as the literature on human rights.1 While recognizing the broader range of possible connections between sport and human rights, this paper deliberately narrows its focus to ensure clarity and depth. To begin, this paper focuses on amateur sport, which is “less well researched” than elite sport.2 Furthermore, I have only two interconnected aims in this paper. I demonstrate (i) that the connection between the human right to access sport and the right to health is recent at the international stage and in the Council of Europe and (ii) that, considering this connection, positive obligations relating to the right to access sport in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallThe Right to Access Sport for All in Europe2026-04-28text/htmlen-USThe Right to Access Sport for All in Europe2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1252522026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28How Selective Interventionism Trumps Human Rights Protection: A Configurational Analysis of the United Nations Security Council’s Disparate Response to Genocide
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989164
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On April 7, 1994, Rwanda plunged into a catastrophic wave of violence so profound that the international community seemed to lose sight of the atrocities being committed.1 It was only after seventy-six days—and the deaths of about 800,000 Tutsis, Twa, and moderate Hutus—that a reluctant United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”) finally acted, passing Security Council Resolution 929.2 In accordance with Resolution 929, a French-led coalition known as Operation Turquoise was deployed in Rwanda with a mandate to establish humanitarian zones and, where necessary, use force to protect human life. The mission’s purpose was for the “protection of displaced persons, refugees and civilians at risk in Rwanda.”3Despite
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallHow Selective Interventionism Trumps Human Rights Protection: A Configurational Analysis of the United Nations Security Council’s Disparate Response to Genocide2026-04-28text/htmlen-USHow Selective Interventionism Trumps Human Rights Protection: A Configurational Analysis of the United Nations Security Council’s Disparate Response to Genocide2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®2273372026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28Vulnerable and Empowered? Girls in the Practice of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989165
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In recent years, girls1 have been at the forefront of many fundamental struggles. At only eleven, Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog denouncing the violent clampdown on girls’ access to education by the Pakistani Taliban. At fifteen she survived an assassination attempt. She continued her activism and received the Nobel Peace Prize at seventeen—the youngest recipient in history. Greta Thunberg, who started her “school strike for climate” at fifteen, mobilized millions of young people across the world to protest governments’ inaction in the face of climate change and helped to revive the global environmental movement. Because of catalysts like Greta, girls continue to play a vital role in this movement, including
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallVulnerable and Empowered? Girls in the Practice of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child2026-04-28text/htmlen-USVulnerable and Empowered? Girls in the Practice of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®1443592026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid ed. by Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989166
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It is difficult to overstate the lasting impact that Urvashi Vaid’s life and activism have had on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (“LGBTQ”) movements in the United States. Vaid rose to national prominence as the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1989 to 1992, becoming the youngest person and first person of color to take on that leadership role. She assumed a variety of formal and informal leadership positions in subsequent years and remained one of the LGBTQ movement’s most vocal and tireless proponents of a democratic, intersectional, and progressive politics until her death from breast cancer in 2022.1In The Dream of a Common Movement, Jyotsna Vaid and Amy Hoffman
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/77/image/coversmallThe Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid ed. by Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman (review)2026-04-28text/htmlen-USThe Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid ed. by Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman (review)2026-04-282026TWOProject MUSE®243272026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-28