Author: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann / Political Geography: Africa

Author:: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publication Date:: 02-2012
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Human Rights Human Welfare (University of Denver)
Abstract:: This article considers whether a there should be a separate international Covenant to elaborate on the human right to own property, which has languished since its inclusion in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Topic:: Economics, Human Rights, Human Welfare, Privatization, and Food
Political Geography:: Africa

Author:: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publication Date:: 01-2008
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Human Rights and Human Welfare - Review Essays
Institution:: Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
Abstract:: Do human rights scholars need to learn more about the minutiae of the Nazi period, or the immediate post-war period? One wonders whether there is any benefit, other than one of historical interest, to learning about the way African-American soldiers and their children with white German women were treated under the American occupation of Germany. Similarly, one might wonder whether the study of continued German and American Catholic anti-Semitism after 1945 can be of any benefit, when the largest question concerning Jews in the 21st century is the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Moreover, in an age when mass rape in warfare is common, it may be mere prurience to read about mass rapes of German women by Russian soldiers. And since the fall of the Berlin Wall, do we need to know that East German Communists were often as corrupt as their Nazi predecessors?
Topic:: Civil Society and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Africa, America, Europe, Palestine, and Germany

Author:: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publication Date:: 01-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University
Abstract:: This paper presents some very preliminary thoughts on reparations due to Sub-Saharan Africa, including acknowledgment, apology, and financial compensation. I am a political sociologist, a specialist in international human rights with a background in African studies. Focusing on the Afactual@ history of Africa, I consider the possibility of arguing a case for Western compensation for racial discrimination. I also consider the case for acknowledgment, apology and compensation drawn from the need to recognize the moral integrity of Africans.
Topic:: Globalization and Imperialism
Political Geography:: Africa

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