human rights

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/24/2023
  

  "Argentina, 1985" Gets Oscar Nod

  The film has sparked debate in Argentina over its representation of events, but tells the story of the first successful civilian trial of a military dictatorship. 

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• 1/15/2023
  

  Resisting Nationalism in Education

  by Jacob Goodwin

  "Countering the pull toward nationalistic authoritarianism requires intellectual openness and curiosity.  This is a challenge in the time of recovery from the global pandemic, environmental catastrophe and jagged economic turbulence."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/5/2022
  

  Is Israel Criticism the Reason Harvard Refused "Godfather" of Human Rights

  by Michael Massing

  Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors? 

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• SOURCE: The China Project
  12/7/2022
  

  The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement

  by James Carter

  An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.

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• SOURCE: History Club (Substack)
  12/4/2022
  

  Qatar's World Cup Echoes Brutal American Labor History

  by Jason Steinhauer

  Exposés of the brutal conditions faced by migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup facilities echoes the history of American public works, where workers' bodies and lives were subordinated to budgets and timetables. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/1/2022
  

  For Chinese Protesters, Blank Pages are the Punch Line. What's the Joke?

  by Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  To understand the current Chinese protests, consider the nation's traditions of creative, surreptitious, and subversive political humor. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/29/2022
  

  Russia's Memorial Forced to Downsize its Tribute to Stalinist Victims

  “The point in returning the names is that we’re naming the victims,” said Yan Rachinsky, the chairman of Memorial’s board. “But the question inevitably arises: If there are victims of crime, then there are criminals, and there are reasons for the crime. These are no longer things that our authorities are ready to discuss.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/27/2022
  

  Spain's New Citizenship Law for Exiles from Franco Portends Massive Return from Latin America

  Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country. 

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• SOURCE: London Review of Books
  10/13/2022
  

  Understanding Colombia's Truth Commission Report after 60 Years of Civil Conflict

  by Rachel Nolan

  Colombia's armed conflict between government forces, leftist rebels, and paramilitary death squads is the world's longest continuous conflict. The nation's massive Truth Commission report undermines decades of official government narrative about the apportionment of blame for atrocities. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Voice
  10/6/2022
  

  Philadelphia Apologizes for Prison Experiments on Inmates

  University of Pennsylvania Dermatology professor Albert Kligman tested medicines and other products on prison inmates between 1951 and 1974. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/7/2022
  

  Honored by Nobel Peace Prize, Memorial Preserves Knowledge of Soviet Atrocities and Warns of Present Imperialism

  The Nobel committee gave an implicit rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in honoring the organization, which was shut down as a "terrorist" group last year, forcing some leaders into exile. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/16/2022
  

  Isaac Chotiner Interviews Deborah Lipstadt

  Is partnership with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia a good strategy to reduce antisemitism in the Middle East? 

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• 9/4/2022
  

  UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US

  by Alan J. Singer

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called out American health disparities, police abuse and crackdowns on protesters as key failures of the United States to address racial inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
  8/31/2022
  

  DoD's Plan to Reduce Civilian Casualties Will Humanize Endless War

  by Samuel Moyn

  Reducing the brutality of war while tolerating its existence will entrench war as a permanent feature of global politics. 

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• SOURCE: New America
  8/23/2022
  

  Keisha Blain's New Project Looks to Black Women Activists as Architects of Modern Human Rights Campaigns

  "As someone who is very committed to unearthing the histories of Black working-class and working-poor women, I have had to move beyond the traditional archive."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/16/2022
  

  Franklin Foer on Paul Manafort's Memoir

  With a memoir titled "political prisoner," Paul Manafort "now places himself in the same category as the victims of rape and beatings whose suffering he was once handsomely paid to minimize."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/16/2022
  

  Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment Policies in Northern Ireland

  by Jack Sheehan

  Tapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2022
  

  Is there a Way for LIV Golfers to Avoid Helping Saudi Arabia "Sportswash" its Human Rights Abuses?

  by Lane Demas

  If the golfers who have been drawn to the new LIV tour by the lavish money offered by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund want to, they can choose to be more than mere pawns in a plan to use sports to sanitize the regime's human rights record. 

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• SOURCE: Quincy Institute
  8/1/2022
  

  Post-Cold War Interventions show Military Restraint is the Key to Protecting Human Rights

  by Aslı Bâli

  America's foreign policy establishment must "right-size" its expectations about the ability of US military power to secure desired outcomes, and prepare to embrace non-coercive approaches to human rights crises that will be precipitated by climate change and food crises. 

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• 7/8/2022
  

  The Wagner Group is Just the Latest Example of Privatized War

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Hiring soldiers of fortune to wage war has long been profitable to mercenaries and politically advantageous to rulers. Its modern resurgence with the American Blackwater organization and the Russian Wagner Group show the need for stronger cooperative security to prevent human rights abuse.