Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
From 2003 to 2016 Rhoda Howard-Hassmann held a Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University; from 1976 to 2003 she was a professor of sociology at McMaster University. She has won several academic awards for her work on international human rights, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of eight books, most recently State Food Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and In Defense of Universal Human Rights (Polity, 2018), and is co-editor of four others, most recently The Human Right to Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting
Jul 18, 2019 07:17 am UTC| Insights & Views
In June, the United States House of Representatives held a debate about reparations to African-Americans. One of the questions in this discussion is why Japanese-Americans received reparations for their internment by the...
Colonial genocide is a composite act: A human rights analysis
Jun 19, 2019 02:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Canada is currently embroiled in a debate about whether the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls should have used the word genocide to describe our federal, provincial and municipal...
Clashing rights: Behind the Québec hijab debate
May 27, 2019 09:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has introduced Bill 21, a law that would supposedly entrench religious neutrality in the province. It would do so by prohibiting providers of government services in...
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Neglected victims of persecution
Mar 25, 2019 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In February, a Russian court sentenced a Danish citizen who was a legal resident of Russia to six years in prison for such an extremist offence as organizing other Witnesses to shovel snow from their churchs property. A...
Venezuela: Denial of food is a human rights crime
Feb 06, 2019 23:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In early February, the Lima group, a coalition group of several Latin American countries and Canada, urged the Venezuelan military to sever ties with President Nicolás Maduro. The group called for the urgent...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India