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Do the dead have human rights?

By examining the history of the application of forensic techniques to humanitarian issues, can we now argue that the dead have human rights?

Dr Claire Moon, Associate Professor in Sociology at LSE, has been exploring this history as well as examining the challenges and innovations in the forensics field in contemporary Mexico. Her research project, "Human Rights Human Remains: Forensic Humanitarianism and the Politics of the Grave", promises to confront the human rights paradigm by including the dead in the category of who counts as "human".

Watch: Claire Moon's exploration of forensic humanitarianism and the mass dead in "Do the dead have human rights?"

Find out more about the project at https://humanrightshumanremains.com.

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Claire Moon
Dr Claire Moon

Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

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".

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