human rights

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  7/20/2020
  

  Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight

  by Anne Gray Fischer

  How did we get to the point where sexual assault is considered valid, necessary police work? The answer lies in the origin story of modern police, and specifically in the history of the discretionary enforcement of public order laws.

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• SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  7/28/2020
  

  New Statues Stoke Sensitivity Between South Korea, Japan

  A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolizing a victim of sexual slavery by Japan's wartime military is the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity between the countries, with Tokyo's government spokesperson questioning whether the male figure represents the Japanese prime minister.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/2020
  

  The History of Black Women and Internationalism (Review)

  by Robert Greene II

  A new collected volume examines international connections between women activists in the African diaspora. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/21/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States

  by Keisha N. Blain

  By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Who Was Our Worst President? Think About it When a Grim 75th Anniversary Arrives

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  The anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should inspire consideration of the global fallout from Harry Truman's presidential decisions. 

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• SOURCE: Moscow Times
  5/22/2020
  

  Concerns Raised for Detained Gulag Historian Yury Dmitriyev

  U.K. calls for early release after court rejects lawyers’ argument Dmitriyev is at risk of the coronavirus in Karelian detention center.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/8/2020
  

  Denis Goldberg, South African Freedom Fighter, Is Dead at 87

  He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  5/7/2020
  

  Russian Court Upholds Decision To Extend Detention Of Prominent Gulag Historian

  Yury Dmitriyev's supporters have said charges were brought against him because of his research into a side of history that complicates the Kremlin's glorification of the Soviet past.

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• SOURCE: Yonhap News Agency
  4/29/2020
  

  Late 'Comfort Woman' Recognized for Lifelong Human Rights Activities with Amnesty Award

  Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist received a posthumous award from Amnesty International.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre

  by J. Chester Johnson

  The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism.

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• SOURCE: Inside Sources
  4/29/2020
  

  Time to Reflect on 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of WWII Concentration Camps

  by Rick Halperin

  A human rights scholar uges us to honor the anniversaries of allied liberation of Nazi concentration camps by seeing our current individual travails through the perspective of our common humanity.

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• SOURCE: The New Daily
  4/27/2020
  

  On this Day: Chinese Students March in Pro-Democracy Tiananmen Square Protests

  On this day in 1989, enormous crowds of Chinese students and new-found supporters marched through major cities in China to fight for democratic freedoms.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/26/2020
  

  Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always

  by Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

  In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

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• 9/1/19
  

  The Carter Presidency Reconsidered

  by Richard Moe

  “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace and we championed human rights.” 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/9/19
  

  Ulysses Grant’s Failed Attempt to Grant Native Americans Citizenship

  In a forgotten chapter of history, the president and his Seneca Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Ely Parker, fought for Native American rights

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-17-2018
  

  How human rights gained international support

  by Jennifer Vannette

  International organizations forced nation-states to do the right thing.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-23-17
  

  Arseny Roginsky, Russian Human Rights Leader and Historian, Is Dead at 71

  He spent decades documenting the millions of victims of Soviet persecution. 

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• 2-12-17
  

  How Should We Teach About Human Rights in the Trump Era?

  by Luke Reader

  Here’s how I’m doing it.

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• 12-27-16
  

  Trump Got You Down? Here’s Inspiration.

  by Sandra Weber

  It’s the story of how suffragists prevailed in the long run by championing human rights.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-27-14
  

  UN approves Sri Lanka inquiry of civil war abuses

  The U.N.'s top human rights body has approved an international criminal investigation into alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in 2009.