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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, the scholar-in-residence at Fordham Law School; Nicole Austin-Hillery, the executive director of Hu...

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 memorials, museums, and national and international institutions, are still challenged by the cancellatio...

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 tortured,” Mohamedou Ould Slahi told the virtual audience at the Rights or Rightlessness Event, t...

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 Political Science, he also acquired postgraduate degrees in Economics and International Relations. He...