Category: forced marriage

  • Prepare for take off! – Comic Launch

    It is on the internet, therefore it must be true.  Like little elves, we are busily preparing the launch of our comic and a separate but connected panel discussion on human rights education more broadly.   If you want to know more, click the link and scroll down until you find our event. We’d love to see…

  • Delicious Dolls and Reluctant Brides: Forced Marriage in Nineteenth Century Art

    We can learn a lot about a culture from their art. What do the people value? What stories do they tell? When we answer those questions, we learn a lot about an era. Nineteenth-century portrait artist Auguste Toulmouche was known for his paintings of beautiful, indolent women. In fact, Émile Zola (an author and playwright…

  • New Publication Alert! 

    Yes, I am reluctantly blowing my own trumpet.   Last year, I wrote a journal article about forced marriage and human rights law. It is still under review. That is the academic publication process for you. Apart from that it takes AGES, it also involves a lot of write-and-delete. Or maybe more write-and-take-out-what-you-have-just-written-because-it-pushes-the-article-over-the-wordlimit-but-save-it-in-another-document-just-in-case. I decided to…