It is our pleasure to announce that Societies Without Borders (the
premier journal for Human Rights research) has just released Issue 1 of Volume 7.
As this journal was the first to champion
interest in the field of Human Rights, we have had no shortage of submissions this year, and the quality (as well
as the quantity) of the content we have included in the first issue of this
volume reflects that. Inside
you will find highly edifying pieces of research, such as:
Es
un placer anunciar que Societies Without Borders (la principal
revista para la investigación de los Derechos Humanos) acaba de lanzar
el número 1 de Volumen 7. Como
este diario fue el primero en interesarse en el campo de los
Derechos Humanos, no hemos tenido escasez de presentaciones de este año,
y la calidad (así como la cantidad) de los contenidos que hemos
incluido en la primera edición de este volumen lo demuestra. En su interior se encuentran piezas muy edificantes de la investigación, tales como:
Ø Barbara Gurr’s
“The
Failures and Possibilities of a Human Rights Approach to Secure Native American
Women’s Reproductive Justice,” where the current violations of Native
American’s women’s right to basic health are revealed and the challenges of
articulating the human rights needs of Native Americans within the United States
is examined.
Ø Ranita Ray and
Bandana Purkayastha “Challenges
in Localizing Global Human Rights,” where the authors draw upon ethnographic
and historical data via document analysis to address two mechanisms in the
localization of global human rights.
Ø Stacy Missari
and Christine Zozula “‘Woman
As…’: Personhood, Rights and The Case of
DomesticViolence,” in which the authors discuss the
politics of gender and domestic violence
using the first court case filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights against the United States.
Ø (One of
our two Notes From the Field) Vincent Walsh’s “Universal
Moral Grammar: An Ontological Grounding for Human Rights,” where the
principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights are connected to the issue of
global justice in pursuit of the question: is there a genetically endowed
Universal Moral Grammar common to all human beings?
Ø (Our
second Note from the Field) Annie Wilson’s “Trafficking
Risks for Refugees,” which discusses a number of the risk factors in the
life situation of refugees that places them in danger of falling prey to human
traffickers.
Ø Last (but
certainly not least) in our Expressions section we have three excellent
pieces of poetry from George Snedeker (Help
Create Order; Beggar’s Opera; Communication), a review of Cecilia
L. Ridgeway’s Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern
World by Rachel Feinstein, and a review of Mohammed
Bamyeh’s Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity
by Dana M. Williams.
