Embodiment as resilience and resistance in human rights work
Loretta Pyles, OpenGlobalRights (March 2019)
“Human rights violations harm people’s minds and their bodies, and addressing both can help to heal trauma and allow people to move forward in a more whole and empowered way.”
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