This is a fantastic article – no wading through legal treacle here. HR courses start like this – ‘recitation of UDHR and ICCPR’ followed by sleep, or looking at ‘Paine, Burke, Mill and Bentham and a bit of Dworkin’ which is ‘too abstract’, or they start like Dudai’s course – 3 stories to bring ‘the human to human rights’: Which type of course would you prefer?
Thomas Clarkson – writing and protesting about the slave trade (picked up later by Wilberforce – combining the outsider and insider activist models).
Henri Dunant – Solferino memoir leading to ICRC (fight wars more humanely – moral observer, speak for all as witness rather than political activist/advocate) – www.icrc.org
Peter Benenson – 1961 argues for an amnesty for Portuguese students – sets up Amnesty (now a pejorative word – see TRC defence of amnesties)
Reviews (inter alia) – Hochschild’s Bury the Chains – Clarkson’s story which Dudai enjoys.
