Up Close:

The (mis) appropriation of Human Rights

In this Up Close, a number of leading scholars examine the authoritarian turn of various governments, looking particularly at how they borrow and misappropriate the language of human and constitutional rights for repressive and anti-pluralist purposes, even while enjoying the legitimacy of the language and institutions of rights.

Başak Çalı and Esra Demir-Gürsel describe how Turkey in recent times has used familiar frames of human rights discourse to distinguish supposedly ‘authentic’ from ‘inauthentic’ rights holders. They argue that human rights are represented by the Turkish government as zero-sum games, with the rights of LGBTQI+ people being pitted against those of pious citizens, and the rights of families and public morals being invoked to justify withdrawing from legal instruments intended to regulate violence against women.

Farrah Ahmed in her essay argues that India under Modi has been using strategies of subterfuge and the language of constitutional rights to conceal authoritarian nationalist actions which, in the guise of protecting against religious persecution, are actually discriminating against Muslims and distorting the concept of secularism.

These essays form part of a larger symposium on the (Mis)Appropriation of Human Rights by the New Global Right.

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Complex object types cannot be converted to simple values.

The expression has requested a variable or an intermediate expression result as a simple value. However, the result cannot be converted to a simple value. Simple values are strings, numbers, boolean values, and date/time values. Queries, arrays, and COM objects are examples of complex values.

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The error occurred in C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm: line 4044
Called from C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm: line 4043
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4042 : <cfif isDefined("url.lang")>
4043 : <cfoutput query="get_content_topic"><div class="col-md-4" style="height:540px;">
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Stack Trace

at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor48(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:4044) at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor49(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:4043) at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor76(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:4042) at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor97(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:3657) at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor102(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:3597) at cfindex2ecfm389513140.runPage(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/index.cfm:1) at cfindex2ecfm692230085.runPage(C:/websites/openglobalrights.com/wwwroot/up-close/misappropriation-of-human-rights/index.cfm:1)

coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage$ComplexObjectException: Complex object types cannot be converted to simple values.
	at coldfusion.runtime.Cast._String(Cast.java:1049)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor48(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:4044)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor49(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:4043)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor76(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:4042)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor97(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:3657)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140._factor102(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:3597)
	at cfindex2ecfm389513140.runPage(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\index.cfm:1)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:244)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:446)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:2795)
	at cfindex2ecfm692230085.runPage(C:\websites\openglobalrights.com\wwwroot\up-close\misappropriation-of-human-rights\index.cfm:1)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:244)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:446)
	at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
	at coldfusion.filter.IpFilter.invoke(IpFilter.java:64)
	at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:451)
	at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)
	at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
	at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:112)
	at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:94)
	at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
	at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:58)
	at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
	at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62)
	at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:219)
	at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
	at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
	at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:218)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:110)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:506)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:169)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:962)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:466)
	at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:197)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:637)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)