As President of Ashoka, the world’s largest and oldest organization investing in social entrepreners, Diana Wells (1988) equips would-be organizers of social change with the necessary tools to find that blend for themselves. Co-Editor-in-Chief of BHRR Cameron Parsons (’14) sat down with Wells this summer to hear her thoughts on social entrepreneurship, its ideal scope, and its effectiveness.

Last Spring, BHRR reporters Marc Briz and Michael Miller spoke with Lisa Hajjar, a Professor of Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. In the interview, Hajjar explains the current U.S. stance on torture, the debate surrounding Guantanamo Bay, and the United States’ selective enforcement of International Law.

Each day in the United States, hundreds of thousands children under the age of 18 toil in American agricultural fields each day. irector of Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division, Zama Coursen-Neff, explains how a loophole in United States federal law is coming to…

Often lacking strong roots in the country where they work, migrant laborers as a demographic are particularly vulnerable to abuse, mistreatment, and neglect from governments and private corporations. In countries where little protections are offered or upheld, these workers can suffer a wide range of economic and financial exploitation such as unpaid wages, long work hours and poor working conditions as well as more serious forms of human rights abuse including physical and psychological violence, forced labor and human trafficking. The staff of BHRR sat down with Sarah L. Whitson, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, to discuss the challenges of upholding the rights of migrant laborers particularly in the Middle East and Gulf countries that have large migrant labor populations and poor records regarding upholding the basic rights of these workers.

Why do we have human rights and why are we obligated to respect them? Brown University Professor of Political Science, Sharon Krause, discusses the foundations of human rights from both a political and moral standpoint.