Harry Potter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The Rights Pod

Center for Human Rights at Stanford University

22 episodes

9 months ago

What is a human rights career like? How should public schools teach the history of human rights? Does the wizarding world of Harry Potter uphold human rights? For answers to all of these questions, you're listening to the Rights Pod. The Rights Pod is produced by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University. Each week, current and former human rights students will discuss human rights—from how they are implemented in the international system to human rights in small places, close to home.

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Harry Potter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Rights Pod

44 minutes 36 seconds

5 years ago

Harry Potter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Alina Utrata and Shikha Srinivas tackle the most critical issues regarding human rights in the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Does the use of dementors in Azkaban prison constitute torture? Is the Daily Prophet really committed to free speech? And do wizards hold free and fair elections? The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.

Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's tweets. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/

Two transgender activists are getting a monument in New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/arts/transgender-monument-stonewall.html

Harry Potter and the UDHR

For more reading on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, check out the below sources. If you are a Stanford student, you can also sign up for the Human Rights minor gateway course HUMRTS 101: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights Theory and Practice, offered in Winter Quarter.

James Nickel, "Human Rights," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available online at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/

Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Available online at https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Michael Freeman, Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (3rd edition), Polity Press (2017).

Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001).

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Fight for Human Rights (UN TV-5:05 min). Available online at http://webtv.un.org/watch/eleanor-roosevelt%E2%80%99s-fight-for-human-rights/5992910444001

The Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN TV-2:17 min). Available online at http://webtv.un.org/watch/the-women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/5976415965001/?term=

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