Description

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An honest exploration of the ethical dimensions of human rights work.

Human rights work takes place everywhere, every day, and in every way, but good intentions don’t always bring the intended results. Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage in a series of overlapping conversations about the complex messiness of ethics in practice, and the implications for human rights work in academia and beyond. Contributors share their ethical dilemmas. How do they evaluate a situation and the ways to resolve it? Where do or don’t they seek guidance? What might they do differently? This thoughtful work proposes that personal reflection and sometimes uncomfortable discussion are essential components of critical human rights practice.

About the Author

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Shayna Plaut is the director of the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy at the University of Manitoba. She is also a research manager at the Global Reporting Centre. Shayna has served as a consultant for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and for Amnesty International. 

Neil Bilotta is clinical assistant professor of social work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Lara Rosenoff Gauvin is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba and a research associate with the university’s Centre for Human Rights Research. 

Christina Clark-Kazak is associate professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, a past editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, and past president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration.

Maritza Felices-Luna is associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa and co-author of Demarginalizing Voices: Commitment, Emotion and Action in Qualitative Research.