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Legal scholars and experts discussed mobilizing and advocating for human rights and racial justice in a virtual panel at Harvard Law School on Thursday. The event — titled “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Justice” — marked the second installment in a year-long series hosted by the Human Rights Program at the Law School. Moderated by Aminta J. Ossom, a clinical instructor at the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, the event featured Gay J. McDougall,...

Jan. 27, 2021 On January 27 last year, Holocaust memorials and museums around the world were commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. No one could have imagined that shortly after, memorial sites would face one of the greatest challenges for public commemoration in their existence. This week, as the world prepares to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a year after the COVID pandemic closed historical sites around the globe, Holocaust memo...

Final Call News A U.S. Sailor stands watch over a cell block at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photos: MGN Online WASHINGTON—Twenty years after the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba, the United States is still holding 40 detainees, indefinitely, most without charge and none having received a fair trial. “After 9/11 happened, I was kidnapped from Mauritania to Jordan, from there to Afghanistan and from there to Guantanamo Bay where I was to...

Amnesty International has released a new report highlighting ongoing and historic human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, as detentions there enter their 20th year and as a new President …

5 min read The death has been announced of Professor Ebere Onwudiwe, a renowned economist, political scientist, prolific writer, promoter of Afro-optimism, and respected public intellectual. According to family sources, he died on Saturday, January 9, “due to…complications of the global pandemic.” He was born on October 10, 1952, and is from Isunjaba in Imo State of Nigeria, where he held the traditional title of Mba 1 of Isunjaba. Apart from having a doctorate degree in P...

59 books by Cleveland authors released in 2020 Updated Dec 18, 2020; Posted Dec 18, 2020 Plenty of new books arrived in 2020 by local authors and writers with ties to Northeast Ohio. Check out some of the new releases in this guide. Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Looking to pick up a few more books in the new year, or hoping to get to know Northeast Ohio’s busy literary scene? There are plenty of great reads written by authors with connections to Greater Cleveland. We put together a sele...

KERA News Claire Robinson, senior museum educator at the Holocaust Museum in Dallas, gives a virtual field trip tour to Dallas ISD students, on Mon., Dec. 7. Field trips have gone virtual, and Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is offering a live experience where tour guides actively engage with students. A group of Dallas high school students recently fired up their laptops, tablets and phones for a virtual visit to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The field trip started l...

December 14, 2020 The human rights abuses that plagued the Enron Corporation’s Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998 demonstrate the need for US government agencies to scrutinise such controversial projects more closely, the Human Rights Watch said. In 1999, Human Rights Watch charged in a 166-page report, “The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations,” that Enron subsidiaries paid local law enforcement agencies to suppress opposition to its power plant i...

Violation. forced labor and mass mobilizations, reeducation through a labor example camps, etc., etc. many of the countrys human rights abuses underwrite their regimes weapons program, and it continues by saying that includes the force labor and those mass mobilizations, reeducation at the labor camps and and overseas labor contracts. thousands of north koreans are sent abroad every year to work in slave-like conditions earning revenue for the regime. how do we address this? does the president r...