Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Trauma and human rights: context and content -- Traumatic experience, human rights violations, and their intersection -- Moving toward trauma-informed and human rights-based social policy: the role of the helping professions -- Enhancing Indigenous well-being: applying human rights and trauma-informed perspectives with Native Americans / Hilary N. Weaver -- Black trauma in the US and the pursuit of human rights: a brief history / Christopher St. Vil and Noelle M. St. Vil -- Children's experiences of trauma and human rights violations around the world / Molly R. Wolf, Shraddha Prabhu and Janice Carello -- Women, trauma and human rights?r Filomena M. Critelli and Jane McPherson -- The lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people: a trauma-informed and human rights perspective / Diane E. Elze -- Mental disability, trauma, and human rights / Eva Szeli -- Refugees and asylum seekers / Isok Kim, S. Megan Berthold, and Filomena M. Critelli -- The interrelationship between aging, trauma, and the end of life / Jacqueline McGinley and Deborah Waldrop -- Truth and reconciliation commissions, human rights, and trauma / David K. Androff -- Afterword -- Human rights and the science of suffering / Sandra L. Bloom

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the development and current status of each of these frameworks, examining traumatic experiences and human rights violations across a range of populations and describing efforts to remediate them. Individual chapters address these topics among Native Americans, African Americans, children, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals, those with mental disabilities, refugees and asylees, and older adults, and also in the context of social policy and truth and reconciliation commissions. The authors demonstrate that the trauma and human rights frameworks each contribute invaluable and complementary insights, and that their integration can help us fully appreciate and address human suffering at both individual and collective levels.