Rosa Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosa Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosa |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3037-9026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Haiti Cholera Claims: From Symbolic to Material Reparations
In this essay, we will use the Haiti Cholera case study to explore how the victims and the socioeconomic turns are increasingly pivotal in the field of reparations as part of transitional justice. On December 1, 2016, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologized for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, an illness which arrived with Nepalese peacekeepers deployed after the 2010 earthquake. After years of silence and denial from the UN, the UN finally est…
Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse
M. Evans, Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice, reviewed by Rosa Freedman
Appraising the Socio-Economic Turn in Reparations: Transitional Justice for Cholera Victims in Haiti
∞ After belatedly apologizing for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the ‘New Approach to Cholera in Haiti’ by the UN and the promise of material assistance to victims through a ‘victim-centred approach’ highlight how the victims turn and the socio-economic turn are increasingly pivotal in the field of transitional justice. In light of these growing calls, we suggest a matrix to clarify the debate made of two separate dimensions: the focus of reparat…
The Security Council in practice: Haiti, cholera, and the elected members of the United Nations Security Council
While the cholera outbreak in Haiti still claims victims every month, it is also the backdrop of one of the biggest legal battles the UN has been engaged in – one for the recognition of harm caused and for reparations for victims of cholera. Having used its immunity to disengage from the issue, the UN finally changed its stance in December 2016 and apologized for the organization’s role in the cholera outbreak. This article analyses the role of t…
Child safeguarding in a peacekeeping context: Lessons from Liberia
This article reviews how peacekeeping officials safeguard children from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in Liberia, more than 15 years after the landmark reports published on this issue. Based on original fieldwork conducted in Liberia and in New York, the article introduces an innovative framework to assess whether or not organisations effectively safeguard children from SEA. It reviews three interrelated issues: reinforcing the institutiona…
UNaccountable: A New Approach to Peacekeepers and Sexual Abuse
The appointment of a new United Nations Secretary-General brings new opportunities to address issues that have beset the Organisation over recent decades. A priority in that regard should be accountability for harms caused within peacekeeping. This issue has received significant attention over recent years, with the close scrutiny of cholera in Haiti and lead poisoning in Kosovo being just two examples. While legal scholarship in recent years has…
UNaccountable: A Rejoinder to Devika Hovell
The United Nations Special Procedures System
The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the evolving international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the system’s expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the mounting evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing p…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Politicisation of the Human Rights Council
Political objectives will always be involved where a body or organisation is intergovernmental and where, rather than being composed of independent experts, government delegates represent their states. The government delegates at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (‘Council’) are responsible and accountable to their national governments rather than to the UN.1 Oberleitner remarks that it is unsurprising and somewhat inevitable that an i…
Un-Accountable: A Response to Devika Hovell
Devika Hovell has provided an excellent call to arms for academics to move beyond the question of whether the United Nations has due process deficiencies: By now we all know that it does. She invites us to focus instead on making “the normative case for adopting due process safeguards in UN decision making,” insisting that until now scholars have failed to ask the important theoretical questions underpinning their policy research. Hovell uses two…
Jistis ak Reparasyon pou Tout Viktim Kolera Minustah’: The United Nations and the Right to Health in Haiti
The Haiti cholera claims are focused upon the UN's violation of the rights of individuals affected by the cholera outbreak to access a remedy. The UN's absolute immunity from jurisdiction of national courts is counterbalanced by its duty to provide alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for private law claims. The UN has not only failed to provide those alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, but has repeatedly stated that no claims are rec…
UN Immunity or Impunity? A Human Rights Based Challenge
Immunities of the UN. While state immunity has evolved over recent decades, allowing restrictive immunity that distinguishes between acts jure imperii and those jure gestionis, questions have arisen as to whether that doctrine applies to international organizations and, specifically, the UN. The counterbalance to the UN's absolute immunity is the requirement that it provide alternative mechanisms for resolving disputes. This raises concerns about…
The United Nations Human Rights Council: A critique and early assessment
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This boo…
The end of conceit: Western rationality after postcolonialism
Dr Patrick Chabal, London, Zed Books, 2012, 369 pp., £16.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1848135574 The End of Conceit seeks to move contemporary ideas and debates away from traditional understandings of the Ra
New Mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to universally protect and promote human rights. Failures of the Council's predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had been attributed to politicisation and bias. In order to overcome these and other Commission failings, two new mechanisms were created to assist the new body with fulfilling its mandate. Universal Periodic Review provides a mechanism for examining the human rights recor…
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
Principles of Sociology
UNaccountable: A New Approach to Peacekeepers and Sexual Abuse
The appointment of a new United Nations Secretary-General brings new opportunities to address issues that have beset the Organisation over recent decades. A priority in that regard should be accountability for harms caused within peacekeeping. This issue has received significant attention over recent years, with the close scrutiny of cholera in Haiti and lead poisoning in Kosovo being just two examples. While legal scholarship in recent years has…
UN Immunity or Impunity? A Human Rights Based Challenge
Immunities of the UN. While state immunity has evolved over recent decades, allowing restrictive immunity that distinguishes between acts jure imperii and those jure gestionis, questions have arisen as to whether that doctrine applies to international organizations and, specifically, the UN. The counterbalance to the UN's absolute immunity is the requirement that it provide alternative mechanisms for resolving disputes. This raises concerns about…
Principles of Sociology
The Security Council in practice: Haiti, cholera, and the elected members of the United Nations Security Council
While the cholera outbreak in Haiti still claims victims every month, it is also the backdrop of one of the biggest legal battles the UN has been engaged in – one for the recognition of harm caused and for reparations for victims of cholera. Having used its immunity to disengage from the issue, the UN finally changed its stance in December 2016 and apologized for the organization’s role in the cholera outbreak. This article analyses the role of t…
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
Appraising the Socio-Economic Turn in Reparations: Transitional Justice for Cholera Victims in Haiti
∞ After belatedly apologizing for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the ‘New Approach to Cholera in Haiti’ by the UN and the promise of material assistance to victims through a ‘victim-centred approach’ highlight how the victims turn and the socio-economic turn are increasingly pivotal in the field of transitional justice. In light of these growing calls, we suggest a matrix to clarify the debate made of two separate dimensions: the focus of reparat…
Child safeguarding in a peacekeeping context: Lessons from Liberia
This article reviews how peacekeeping officials safeguard children from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in Liberia, more than 15 years after the landmark reports published on this issue. Based on original fieldwork conducted in Liberia and in New York, the article introduces an innovative framework to assess whether or not organisations effectively safeguard children from SEA. It reviews three interrelated issues: reinforcing the institutiona…
Principles of Sociology
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
New Mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to universally protect and promote human rights. Failures of the Council's predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had been attributed to politicisation and bias. In order to overcome these and other Commission failings, two new mechanisms were created to assist the new body with fulfilling its mandate. Universal Periodic Review provides a mechanism for examining the human rights recor…
The United Nations Human Rights Council: A critique and early assessment
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This boo…
The end of conceit: Western rationality after postcolonialism
Dr Patrick Chabal, London, Zed Books, 2012, 369 pp., £16.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1848135574 The End of Conceit seeks to move contemporary ideas and debates away from traditional understandings of the Ra
UN Immunity or Impunity? A Human Rights Based Challenge
Immunities of the UN. While state immunity has evolved over recent decades, allowing restrictive immunity that distinguishes between acts jure imperii and those jure gestionis, questions have arisen as to whether that doctrine applies to international organizations and, specifically, the UN. The counterbalance to the UN's absolute immunity is the requirement that it provide alternative mechanisms for resolving disputes. This raises concerns about…
Jistis ak Reparasyon pou Tout Viktim Kolera Minustah’: The United Nations and the Right to Health in Haiti
The Haiti cholera claims are focused upon the UN's violation of the rights of individuals affected by the cholera outbreak to access a remedy. The UN's absolute immunity from jurisdiction of national courts is counterbalanced by its duty to provide alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for private law claims. The UN has not only failed to provide those alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, but has repeatedly stated that no claims are rec…
Un-Accountable: A Response to Devika Hovell
Devika Hovell has provided an excellent call to arms for academics to move beyond the question of whether the United Nations has due process deficiencies: By now we all know that it does. She invites us to focus instead on making “the normative case for adopting due process safeguards in UN decision making,” insisting that until now scholars have failed to ask the important theoretical questions underpinning their policy research. Hovell uses two…
The United Nations Special Procedures System
The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the evolving international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the system’s expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the mounting evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing p…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Politicisation of the Human Rights Council
Political objectives will always be involved where a body or organisation is intergovernmental and where, rather than being composed of independent experts, government delegates represent their states. The government delegates at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (‘Council’) are responsible and accountable to their national governments rather than to the UN.1 Oberleitner remarks that it is unsurprising and somewhat inevitable that an i…
UNaccountable: A New Approach to Peacekeepers and Sexual Abuse
The appointment of a new United Nations Secretary-General brings new opportunities to address issues that have beset the Organisation over recent decades. A priority in that regard should be accountability for harms caused within peacekeeping. This issue has received significant attention over recent years, with the close scrutiny of cholera in Haiti and lead poisoning in Kosovo being just two examples. While legal scholarship in recent years has…
UNaccountable: A Rejoinder to Devika Hovell
The Security Council in practice: Haiti, cholera, and the elected members of the United Nations Security Council
While the cholera outbreak in Haiti still claims victims every month, it is also the backdrop of one of the biggest legal battles the UN has been engaged in – one for the recognition of harm caused and for reparations for victims of cholera. Having used its immunity to disengage from the issue, the UN finally changed its stance in December 2016 and apologized for the organization’s role in the cholera outbreak. This article analyses the role of t…
Child safeguarding in a peacekeeping context: Lessons from Liberia
This article reviews how peacekeeping officials safeguard children from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in Liberia, more than 15 years after the landmark reports published on this issue. Based on original fieldwork conducted in Liberia and in New York, the article introduces an innovative framework to assess whether or not organisations effectively safeguard children from SEA. It reviews three interrelated issues: reinforcing the institutiona…
Appraising the Socio-Economic Turn in Reparations: Transitional Justice for Cholera Victims in Haiti
∞ After belatedly apologizing for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the ‘New Approach to Cholera in Haiti’ by the UN and the promise of material assistance to victims through a ‘victim-centred approach’ highlight how the victims turn and the socio-economic turn are increasingly pivotal in the field of transitional justice. In light of these growing calls, we suggest a matrix to clarify the debate made of two separate dimensions: the focus of reparat…
Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse
M. Evans, Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice, reviewed by Rosa Freedman
The Haiti Cholera Claims: From Symbolic to Material Reparations
In this essay, we will use the Haiti Cholera case study to explore how the victims and the socioeconomic turns are increasingly pivotal in the field of reparations as part of transitional justice. On December 1, 2016, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologized for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, an illness which arrived with Nepalese peacekeepers deployed after the 2010 earthquake. After years of silence and denial from the UN, the UN finally est…
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