Posts from Cape Town, South Africa in Human Rights & Civil Liberties from 2017

1. When you were six years old your mother let you wear perfume for the first time. You were elated, …

The rains pounded on the windows and the wind shook the doors all night. The storm was one of biblical …

“Justice happens not when you know more, but when you feel more.” – Peter Storey Justice is all about feeling. …

Sawubona from South Africa! We spent our first week in Johannesburg going to various monuments, townships and museums, in order …

It is difficult to write on South Africa with any cohesion, because as I have talked and talked through some …

Nuances. If I had to pick one word to summarize my experience and thoughts from our first week in South …

I am a stranger here. Here in this big city where the cars drive on the left side of the …

In the lead up to this week, I had been pretty worried. This was a big trip. I was going …

I hate to start this blog with a cliché or an understatement, but I can’t help myself — this week …

I feel it is appropriate that the title of this blog entry is a question, because my first week of …