Tag Archives: human rights

Human Rights Watch Calls on New York U. to Condemn Arrest of Academic in the United Arab Emirates

The Chronicle: Human Rights Watch Calls on New York U. to Condemn Arrest of Academic in the United Arab Emirates

Human Rights Watch is calling on New York University, the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum, and other institutions that are building branches in the United Arab Emirates to condemn the arrest of an economics lecturer at the Abu Dhabi branch of the Sorbonne. Nasser bin Ghaith, an economics lecturer at the Sorbonne who has been critical of governments in the Gulf region for not making more aggressive political reforms, was detained on Sunday, soon after two other political activists were also arrested.

American academics to meet in Uganada?

Inside Higher Ed: Dilemma Over Meeting in Uganda

The American Political Science Association is among several disciplinary associations that have found themselves caught in debates over whether to hold meetings in locales that some want to boycott. In 2008, the association rejected calls by some to move the 2012 meeting out of New Orleans because Louisiana has adopted one of the most stringent bans on gay marriage, applying the ban also to any proposed legal relationships, such as civil unions, that could be seen as resembling marriage. The decision led to a call by some political scientists to boycott the meeting.

Rights for Some People

Inside Higher Ed: Rights for Some People

Should someone who teaches human rights back human rights for all people?

That’s the question being raised by some students at New York University’s law school, who are upset that a visiting professor in the fall semester, slated to teach human rights law, is Thio Li-ann of the National University of Singapore, an outspoken opponent of gay rights. Thio has argued repeatedly and graphically that her country should continue to criminalize gay sexual acts.