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The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us

Political Science Now

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us By Geoff Dancy , University of Toronto and Christopher J. Fariss , University of Michigan Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? The answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.” Read the full article.

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Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy

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Call for Proposals| APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Submit your proposal here → APSA Headquarters, Washington, DC | June 19-21, 2025 | Application Deadline: February 24, 2025 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching … The post Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy (..)

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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

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Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D.

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Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

Political Science Now

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy Date: Thursday, June 19 – Saturday, June 21, 2025 Location: APSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education

Political Science Now

An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Gnay , and Zahide Melis zn llolu , Yaar University, This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies employed in human rights education on enhancing individuals learning and awareness regarding human rights issues.

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

Political Science Now

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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John Avery Dittmer, ¡Presente!

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Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.