This review examines recent scholarship on the rise of international human rights law and
proposes that social movements have played critical roles both in elevating the standards of …

In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of
decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about …

The relationship between human rights and humanitarian law is one of the most contentious
topics in the history of international law. Most scholars studying their foundations argue that …

Why have states created international laws to regulate internal armed conflicts? This article
is the first to theorize the emergence and design of these international rules, focusing on …

Major historical overviews of human rights frame human rights in an exclusively European or
western narrative, even if not necessarily as a simple story of progress. 1 By referring to …

Parcourez l'histoire du concept de" droits de l'Homme" depuis la construction de l'Europe
dans un climat dictatorial encore bien présent jusqu'au triomphe des droits de l'Homme et …

In this essay, I identify and examine the legal-rhetorical mode of reasoning that justifies
colonial-transformative occupations by legitimizing the repression of indigenous resistance …

From 1921 to 1923 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sought to protect
the individual rights of political prisoners in Soviet Russia. This action represented the …

The Geneva Conventions of 1949 are often seen as the product of Western European
design and liberal humanitarianism. Based on a collection of Western and Soviet archival …

The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines necessary
humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation. One-hundred …