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Translation Notes

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In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, met with stakeholders in the Philippines to report on the status of the country regarding environmental and human rights protection. Read the introduction to the collection here.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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Under the Baghdad Sun

Anthropology News

Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Al-Sinak Street, summer 2023.

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. Read about the funded projects.

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Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

Sapiens

The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. Credit: Biro Pemberitaan DPR RI President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. The post Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

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In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.