A conversation with Human Rights Watch researcher Ali Dayan Hasan
Over the last few weeks I’ve exchanged a bunch of emails with Ali Dayan Hasan . Ali is a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, focusing on South Asia. The topics we covered were what human rights as a field is all about, whether the field is “political” or not, how human rights NGOs go about trying to stop rights abuses, where human rights NGOs get their money from and what they spend it on …
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The Senior Organizer: Personal, Medical, Legal, Financial $10.83 No more digging through files! The Senior Organizer is an all-in-one workbook for a senior’s vital information: personal, medical, legal and financial. Do You Want To: Save thousands of dollars in legal and accounting fees? Be equipped with all the information you might need in a financial crisis? Have all your questions prepared for your next doctor’s appointment? Know how to… |
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The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich’s Life-Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans $23.83 In the 1940s, the physician and natural scientist Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed discovery of a new form of energy which charged up living organisms and also existed in the open atmosphere and in high vacuum. Reich’s laboratory and clinical findings indicated this new energy, which he called the orgone, could be photographed and measured, and had powerful life-positive biological effects. Reich trained… |
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures $25.00 Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: “What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance.” The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dim… |