Do the dead have human rights?

Claire Moon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, a member of LSE Human Rights and an Associate of LSE’s Latin America and Caribbean Centre. Her research engages with broad themes such as the nation, justice, atrocities and human rights, spanning the sociologies of politics, crime, law, violence, knowledge, science and death. She is the author of "Narrating Political Reconciliation: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission". Her current project is "Human Rights, Human Remains: Forensic Humanitarianism and the Politics of the Grave".