Human rights narratives and the right to truth

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dc.contributor.authorDeFehr, Mitchell
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeStewart, Christine (Women's and Gender Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorSenehi, Jessica
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-10T18:16:07Z
dc.date.available2023-03-10T18:16:07Z
dc.date.copyright2023-03-09
dc.date.issued2023-03-09
dc.date.submitted2023-03-09T22:45:22Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineLawen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Human Rights (M.H.R.)en_US
dc.description.abstractHuman rights stories are claims, told through narrative, to one or more people about something that happened that infringed or violated an agreed-upon human right. Stories can address human rights violations judicially through formal courts, commissions, or tribunals and non-judicially through public narratives in social and political discourses. Human rights stories, told as testimony in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2007–2015) and the #MeToo movement, demonstrate how stories about lived experiences promote human dignity and assert agency. The purpose of this analysis is to highlight the role of storytelling in both the address and redress of human rights violations within the process of telling narratives of lived experience. When states do not initiate or act through judicial processes, or those processes do not un-silence stories of violations, the emergence of informal truth-telling through public narratives emerges (Ganz, 2009). Whether told in formal judicial or informal nonjudicial spaces, sharing lived experiences is an agency asserting action that can respond to systems of oppression. Everyone ought to have a right to tell their story.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2023en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/37197
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rights Narrativesen_US
dc.subjectPeacebuildingen_US
dc.subject#MeTooen_US
dc.subjectTRCen_US
dc.subjectTruth and Reconcillation Commission of Canadaen_US
dc.subjectStorytellingen_US
dc.titleHuman rights narratives and the right to truthen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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