Squatters' rights!

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حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Women's rights are human rights.

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, challenged the world to live up to the affirmation made in Cairo: that women's rights are human rights. The US has responded to this affirmation with vigor by recognizing that when given knowledge, education, opportunity, and power, women can be heroines; they can move mountains to help themselves and the others whom they are de...

A "public health nuisance": the Victoria Street Early Morning Squatters Market, 1910-1934.

The focus of this paper is the "Indian Market", a famous tourist landmark in Durban. While local and foreign tourists have flocked in large numbers to the Market for most of this century, few realise that the Market has historically been an arena of struggle between Indians and whites concerned about public health in Durban, between Indians and the local state, and amongst Indians themselves. T...

Refugees and Squatters: Immigration and the Politics of Territory on the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Border

For Mozambicans, border-crossing is neither new nor liberating. Many current analyses of refugees, labor migrants, smuggles, and other “transnational subjects” emphasize their range of options, arguing that they are less and less constrained by porous, poilitically “soft” international borders. This paper argues that, for at least a segment, the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border is hard and constraini...

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights