human rights

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• SOURCE: Hong Kong Free Press
  9/19/2021
  

  How Hong Kong's Elite Have Embraced a Shifting Narrative on Tiananmen Square

  The rise of pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong has led to increasing reluctance to condemn the Tiananmen massacre. The arrest of protest leaders under the Beijing-backed national security law has further chilled dissent. 

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• SOURCE: Balkinization
  9/20/2021
  

  Fishing, Not Catching, in the History of the Law

  by John Fabian Witt

  John Fabian Witt writes about a critical exchange over Samuel Moyn's book on humanitarian war, and questions Moyn's conception of the relationship between a scholar's politics and their methodology. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  Dosing Arkansas Prisoners with Ivermectin Just Latest Incident of Medical Abuse

  by Lydia Crafts

  "News that an Arkansas prison doctor deceived inmates to take Ivermectin as a COVID preventative shows that nonconsensual research and the experimental use of drugs on vulnerable people remain common — despite evidence of its danger and laws designed to prevent it."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/13/2021
  

  Honoring Attica After Half a Century

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  Activists both inside and outside of prisons in the 1960s and 1970s confronted the violence of the state. Accountability for law enforcement is still an unrealized legacy of the 1971 Attica rebellion. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/8/2021
  

  50 Years Since Attica, Will America Observe the Human Rights of Prisoners?

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  "The Attica prison uprising was historic because these men spoke directly to the public, and by doing so, they powerfully underscored to the nation that serving time did not make someone less of a human being." 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/21/2021
  

  Professor’s ‘Comfort-Women’ Lecture Gets Him Indicted—And Sparks Debate on Academic Freedom

  "In an interview, Mr. Lew said he had given that same lecture for more than a decade. Students always pushed back and they debated. But the discourse had never before become public."

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• 7/25/2021
  

  America's Leaders Haven't Learned from Past International Rivalries

  by Danielle Taana Smith

  American leaders have failed to learn from the past and are staking the nation's health to competition with foreign adversaries instead of improvement of American lives. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/28/2021
  

  The U.N. Rights Chief Says Reparations Are Needed For People Facing Racism

  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/12/2021
  

  The U.S. Role in the El Mozote Massacre Echoes in Today’s Immigration

  by Nelson Rauda and John Washington

  Renewed efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the 1981 El Mozote massacre of Salvadoran civilians during the civil war will further demonstrate American involvement in the perpetuation of inequality and violence in Central America and, the authors argue, the hypocrisy of US immigration policy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/2021
  

  Sheikh Jarrah Highlights the Violent Brazenness of Israel's Colonialist Project

  by Noura Erakat and Mariam Barghouti

  Media attention to the recent actions of Zionist settlers displacing Palestinian occupants of East Jerusalem should not give the impression that this activity is new. The authors argue it is part of a process that has been continuous since 1948. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Currents
  5/11/2021
  

  Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return

  by Peter Beinart

  Peter Beinart argues that the history of the Jewish people and the events of 1948 compel Israeli political leaders and American and world Jewish organizations to recognize a right of return for displaced Palestinians as part of a resolution to the current crisis in East Jerusalem. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/4/2021
  

  Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Even if the US's "forever wars" are wound down, it's unclear if the national security state will release its remaining "forever prisoners" at Guantamo Bay. 

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  5/2/2021
  

  How Israel Quashed 1982 Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

  A host of political concerns led the Israeli Foreign Ministry to try to sabotage a 1982 conference comparing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/24/2021
  

  Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide

  The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government. 

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• SOURCE: NPR Illinois
  4/26/2021
  

  'The Historical Record Is Affirmed': Armenian Reaction To Biden Recognition Of Armenian Genocide

  Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/24/2021
  

  The Armenian ‘Genocide’: This is What Happened in 1915

  The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/11/2021
  

  How Should the US Treat Migrants when American Policy Affected the Countries They Fled?

  The Temporary Protected Status designation, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, originated because of the massive human rights abuses of the US-supported dictatorship in El Salvador.

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• 4/11/2021
  

  Holocaust Remembrance 80 Years After the Beginning of Hitler's Campaign of Genocide

  by Rick Halperin

  We must see our lives as inextricably linked to both the past and future, so that all peoples, individually or collectively, do not have to know of a world with genocide.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  3/23/2021
  

  Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew

  Newly declassified documents demonstrate that the US government, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, were aware of the developing coup and evaluated policy as a balancing of the prospective military dictatorship's friendliness to the US against its likely willingness to commit human rights violations. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/2021
  

  The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

  Xiyue Wang was released from an Iranian prison in 2019 after being detained for four months. The Princeton doctoral student is now a critic of softening American sanctions aginst Iran.