The right to live in peace

Robin Kirk
6 min readOct 21, 2022

Celebrating Víctor Jara, Chile’s poet of the resistance

September marked the 90th birthday of Víctor Jara: theater director, composer, singer, performer, and human rights champion. This text is excerpted from Righting Wrongs: 20 human rights heroes around the world.

His life and legacy remain an inspiration to Latin Americans as well as artists inspired…

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Robin Kirk

Kirk is the author of Righting Wrongs: 20 human rights heroes around the world & a YA fantasy, The Bond Trilogy. She teaches human rights at Duke University.