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Humanity : An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
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ISSN (Print) 2151-4364 - ISSN (Online) 2151-4372
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The Major Humanitarian Dilemma of Neutrality: The International Committee
of the Red Cross and Prisoners of War in Korea, 1950–1953
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  Abstract: In the fall of 1953 in Geneva, officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reflected in dismay on the limits of the humanitarian aid offered to North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war (POWs) in Korea since the summer of 1950. The situation in POW camps had been particularly alarming, as cases of violence between captives and with camp authorities were numerous. The nature of the problem, as noted in reports, seemed to be that neither the belligerents nor the POWs fully recognized the neutral role of the ICRC. Concerned by the situation, Otto Lehner, head of the ICRC mission in Korea since 1952, concluded that the organization faced a major moral dilemma: "like Pontius Pilate," it could have ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
A Managerial Humanitarianism: The International Committee of the Red Cross
and the Risk Management of Armed Violence in Greater Rio de Janeiro
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  Abstract: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is widely known for providing emergency assistance and protection to populations affected by war or armed conflict.1 In the last decades, however, the organization has expanded its operations beyond the framework of war to include urban armed violence perpetrated by gangs and state forces, which the ICRC posits "will be one of the defining features of the twenty-first century." So, between 2009 and 2013, the organization ran a pilot project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to address the "humanitarian consequences of armed violence" in the city.2 The project consisted of multiple initiatives that addressed themes including mental health, safer behaviors, and first aid ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Epistemics of Aid: Toward a Liminal Critique of Resilience in the Syrian
Crisis
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  Abstract: On May 5, 2016, a few weeks before the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul, the international NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) issued a statement saying that it had decided to withdraw from the summit in protest. The statement read:We no longer have any hope that the WHS will address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations. Instead, the WHS's focus would seem to be an incorporation of humanitarian assistance into a broader development and resilience agenda . . . As shocking violations of international humanitarian law and refugee rights continue on a daily basis, WHS participants will be pressed to a consensus on ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Cultural Renditions of Guantánamo and the War on Terror
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  Abstract: In October 2021, twenty years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the US Supreme Court heard an argument from attorneys representing Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn to allow testimony in a Polish criminal court case related to his alleged torture in Poland during the War on Terror. Husayn, better known as Abu Zubaydah, sought to subpoena the two American CIA contractors, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who designed the euphemistically named program of enhanced interrogation techniques that were employed first on him and extended across a network of secret prisons or black sites, including Poland, after 9/11. The Department of Justice opposed Abu Zubaydah's request to question Mitchell and Jessen about their ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
The Beautiful Guantánamo
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  Abstract: Even now, twenty years after the first War on Terror prisoners—including me—were brought to Guantánamo, most people have little sense of life there. The military personnel, their families, and the third country nationals (TCNs) who work on the base might say it is a breath-taking place on the Caribbean Sea, a good place for a posting or a vacation. I can tell you that inside it is a place of dark injustice. I was detainee 441. I was brought to Guantánamo in February 2002 at age nineteen and spent fourteen years there imprisoned without charge, tortured, and abused. But Guantánamo is also special in another way, for hosting the cultures, norms, and traditions of many societies from all over the world and for our own ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
The Detainee's Two Bodies: Intellectual Property and Fugitivity at
Guantánamo Bay
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  Abstract: As citizens of countries belonging to the leading international copyright law treaty [the Berne treaty], the detainees are entitled to all of the benefits under U.S. copyright law accorded to American citizens. The detention facility's sequestration of detainee art would prevent the detainees, without good cause, from exercising their lawful exclusive rights under the Copyright Act.When the last detention facility in Guantánamo Bay was officially decommissioned in 2010, an international team of artists, curators and architects began planning and designing a museum that would take the place of the detention facility—a little less than two years later, their work became reality. The purpose of the collaboration was ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
From Guantánamo to the Global South: Mohammed el-Gharani in
Literature and Art
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  Abstract: A poem, originally in Arabic but published in English alongside the work of other so-called enemy combatants at the Guantánamo Bay detention centers. An experimental performance in New York City based on a virtual appearance from an undisclosed location in West Africa. A graphic novel, written in the first person and adapted from an interview transcript, but originally authored by a journalist and an illustrator. This is the corpus of creative work based on the life of Mohammed el-Gharani: a Black Muslim citizen of Chad who had spent much of his young life in Saudi Arabia before being captured in Pakistan, at the age of fourteen, and rendered to Guantánamo in 2002, where he would spend the following seven years. In ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
This Is What It Looks Like: Searching for Law's Afterlife in
Guantánamo
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  Abstract: For nearly two decades, Muslim detainees accused of terrorism-related activities have been held in a detention camp on a US military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Guantánamo's constitutive moments are ones of both political and legal excess and privation: the initial Military Order allowing for the detention of prisoners in this space was remarkably expansive in the legal and political latitude it granted to executive powers, but functioned also to subject the Muslim men who were apprehended and renditioned to the camp as beyond the reach of normative legal and political norms, and morality—as fit only for "the legal equivalent to outer-space" and to a geographic location at the outer edges of Empire.1Guantánamo ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
My Guantánamo Writing Seminar
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  Abstract: In my part of the world there's a story about a young man who tells his father he wants to be a writer. "Well, you'd better have something to say," the father answers. In that sense, I can say if it hadn't been for my US-guided tour of international secret prisons and my fourteen years in the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, I wouldn't be a writer.I always wanted to write. As a child I often found myself scribbling random things in notebooks and books, sometimes even ruining the pages of books I borrowed. I did this almost without awareness of what I was doing; it was a kind of compulsion to express random thoughts and feelings. But the thought of writing for publication was beyond me. By nature I'm too lazy to do ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00
Erratum
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  Abstract: We regret to note typographical errors on the outside cover of our 12.3 issue. The corrections are as follows:The correct title for Heike Drotbohm's article is: "Not a cozy dwelling": Exploring Aspirational Anxieties and the Politics of Displacement in São Paulo's Squats.The correct title for Georgina Ramsay's article is: Displacement and the Capitalist Order of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-01-18T00:00:00-05:00