We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights PDF
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UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pagei We Shall Bear Wit ness UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pageii Wis con sin Stud ies in Auto biog ra phy williaml.andrews Se ries Ed i tor UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pageiii We Shall Bear Wit ness Life Nar ra tives and Human Rights Ed ited by meg jensen and margaretta jolly The Univ er sity of Wis con sin Press UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pageiv The Uni ver sity of Wis cons in Press 1930 Mon roe Street, 3rd Floor Mad i son, Wis cons in 53711-2059 uw press.wisc.edu 3 Hen rietta Street Lon don WC2E 8LU, En gland eu ros pan book store.com Copy right © 2014 The Board of Re gents of the Uni ver sity of Wis con sin System All rights reserved. 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Jolly, Mar ga retta, ed i tor of com pi la tion. III. Se ries: Wis con sin stud ies in auto biog ra phy. JC571.W3 2014 323—dc23 2013043104 UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pagev We ded i cate this vol ume to the wit nesses, sur vi vors, and ac ti vists who have so gen er ously shared their sto ries in this book, eminmilli, nazeehasaeed,and hectoraristizbal. UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pagevi And you, my friends who have been called away, I have been spared to mourn for you and weep, Not as a fro zen wil low over your mem ory, But to cry to the world the names of those who sleep. annaakhmatova Sto ries can con quer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. benokri It is not the voice that com mands the story: it is the ear. italocalvino UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pagevii Con tents Forew ord: Life Stor ies in a Human Rights Con text ix maryrobinson Ac knowl edg ments xi Intro duc tion: Life/R ights Nar ra tive in Ac tion 3 margarettajolly Part One. Tes ti mony I-Witness 25 annettekobak Be yond Nar ra tive: The Shape of Trau matic Test i mony 32 mollyandrews The Golden Cage: The Story of an Ac ti vist 48 eminmilli The Price of Words 53 nazeehasaeed Out of the Inner Wild er ness: Tor ture and Heal ing 61 hectoraristizbalanddianelefer Part Two. Rec og ni tion Rec og ni tion 77 evahoffman Pro tec tion 80 gillianwhitlock The Jus tice of Lis teni ng: Jap a nese Lep rosy Seg re ga tion 100 michiomiyasaka Re im a gin ing the Crim i nal, Re con fig ur ing Jus tice 118 finolafarrant vii one line short UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pageviii viii Contents Part Three. Rep re sen ta tion “I Hear the Ap proach ing Thunder”: The Lyric Voice and Human Rights 137 patriciahampl The Fict ional Is Po lit i cal: Forms of Ap peal in Auto bio graph i cal Fic tion and Poetry 141 megjensen Enter the King: Mar tin Lu ther King Jr., “Human Rights Hero ism,” and Con tem po rary American Drama 158 brianphillips Té moign age and Re spon sibil ity in Photo/ Graphic Narr a tives of Méde cins Sans Frontières 175 alexandraschultheismoore Rep re sent ing Human Rights Vio la tions in Multi me dia Con texts 196 katrinam.powell Part Four. Jus tice Sugar Dad dies or Agents for Change? Com mu nity Arts Work ers and Jus tice for Girls “Who Just Want to Go to School” 217 juliawatson E-witnessing in the Dig i tal Age 223 kayschafferandsidoniesmith “Face book Is Like a Re li gion Around Here”: Voices from the “Arab Spring” and the Policy-Making Com mu nity 238 brianbrivati The Im por tance of Tak ing and Bear ing Wit ness: Re flec tions on Twenty Years as a Human Rights Law yer 257 markmuller Part Five. Learn ing Using Life Nar ra tive to Ex plore Human Rights Themes in the Class room 267 brianbrivati,megjensen,margarettajolly,and alexandraschultheismoore Con trib u tors 281 Index 287 UWP: Jensen & Jolly: We Shall Bear Witness pageix Fore word Life Stor ies in a Human Rights Con text maryrobinson Human rights in creas ingly enter every as pect of the mod ern world, and the day-to-day lives of peo ple in every coun try. Mile stones have in cluded the adop- tion of the Con ven tion on the Elim i na tion of Dis crim i na tion against Women (CEDAW) in 1979, the Conv en tion on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and the World Con fer ence on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993. But im ple men ta tion of rights is not with out con tro versy, and nei ther is it a steady tran si tion. When I be came the United Na tions High Com mis sioner for Human Rights in 1997, I drew at ten tion to the fact that even within the UN it self, in dis cus- sions on peacek eep ing or dev elo p ment is sues, the human rights pers pec tive was often omit ted or down played at the time. There has been some im prove ment, but we have still not fully im ple mented an ex pli citly rights-based ap proach to the Mil len nium De velo p ment Goals. Many say that per sonal tes ti mo nies and life writ ings about the ex pe ri ence of abuse and strug gle play a cru cial role in show ing not just the human cost but also in cred ible re sil ience. It was im por tant to me as high com mis sioner to travel to the places where vi o la tions of human rights were oc cur ring, lis ten to vic tims, and try to help am plify their sto ries as di rect wit nesses of abuse. I re call viv idly sit ting in Free town, Sierra Leone, with three young girls who had been cap tured to gether with child sol diers dur ing the fight ing in 1999 and had be come sex slaves to the boys and men of the rebel group. Their sto ries were hor rific, and told with tears, but the three girls had es caped, and with sup port from the United Na tions Children’s Fund (UNICEF) were now in school uni forms and about to sit exams. Some how, they had the cou rage to put their lives back to gether. The reas on I formed Re al iz ing Rights: The Eth i cal Glo bal iza tion In itia tive was to put more em pha sis on eco nomic and so cial rights and to il lus trate how to pro tect and pro mote them in prac tice. Worki ng with my col leagues and our part ners in a num ber of African coun tries on rights to health and de cent work; ix
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