Course Description

This course examines how Western frameworks of rights have been appropriated and criticized in human rights discourses, laws, and activism in both Western and non-Western nations, as well as transnational movements. Topics covered include both political and social/economic rights such as trafficking, sexual violence during wartime, tribunal testimonies, comfort women, reproductive rights, child marriage, religious dress, domestic violence, housing, structural adjustment programs, and water.

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