{"id":6789,"date":"2009-07-08T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2009-07-08T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:43:16","slug":"rights-for-some-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/rights-for-some-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights for Some People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/07\/08\/nyu\">Rights for Some People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should someone who teaches human rights back human rights for all people?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the question being raised by some students at New York University&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Rights for Some People Should someone who teaches human rights back human rights for all people? That&#8217;s the question being raised by some students at New York University&#8217;s law school, who are upset that a visiting professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/rights-for-some-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4410,4409,3429],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay-rights","tag-human-rights","tag-nyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6790,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}