Episode 7 : Rosemary Blanchard part one

Episode 7 : Rosemary Blanchard part one

Washington, DC: HRE USA, 2023

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Human Rights Education Now! Podcasts; Season 1, Episode 7

In Episode 1, Rosemary Blanchard discusses her early interest in human rights issues and the importance of HRE in early education. She shares her background in civil rights law, and how witnessing extreme poverty on a trip to Brazil was transformative in shaping her views on HRE. She shares how working with the Navajo nation as a policy analyst helped her to better understand international human rights frameworks, and how assimilation through education is a problematic issue in Navajo education. Rosemary then explains her views on the role of American exceptionalism in hampering HRE’s advance in the US. Rosemary discusses the NCSS HRE Community’s role in advancing HRE; its connections to humanitarian law; the lack of domestic understanding of international human rights in the USA; the impact of Abu Ghraib torture on her work in HRE; and the contradictions between US ideals and practices at Abu Ghraib. Finally, Rosemary shares her belief in the significance of building civil society on respect for human dignity.

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