Author: Alison Assiter

Alison Assiter is Professor of Feminist Theory at UWE, Bristol, the author of a number of books and articles and also feminist and anti fundamentalist activist. Her latest book is Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth, published by Rowman and Littlefield in May 2015. She has just completed a book on Human Rights, defending them against the charge that they are westocentric.

Crimes Against Humanity

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On the 9th December 2020, the UN called for accountability on a prison massacre in Iran in 1988 which activists have been attempting to get...

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Covid 19 and Human Rights

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In the unprecedented circumstances of the present pandemic, governments across the world have been forced to take extreme steps in their...

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