The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Legacy admissions began to get more attention after the Department of Education initiated a civil rights investigation in July 2023 into Harvard’s legacy practice. In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume. In July 2023, APSA awarded six projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $12,000.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Her research focuses on international law, human rights, transnational activism, and the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation. The manuscript is based on her dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights.

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Political Science Now

MAY 3, 2024

While at Michigan, she has researched the ratification of human rights treaties with Professor Chris Fariss and developed her knowledge of various quantitative analysis tools including R. She presented her results from this work in a poster session at the 2023 American Political Science Association meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. Read about the funded projects.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

This dissertation sheds new light on our understanding of the costs and benefits of naming and shaming human rights abusers. Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. A 2023 report showed that the experience of solitary confinement is far more prevalent than most previous estimates: for at least 22 hours each day, at least 122,840 people experience solitary confinement in U.S.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights. ” address, challenged the prejudices against both Black Americans and women. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

In April 2023, the APSA Council approved a proposal for a new Committee on the Status of Disability in the Profession. His scholarly interests include international law, mass atrocity, human rights, and disability law and policy.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 7, 2024

Thus, the 1980s and 1990s were violence-ridden periods fueled by Sikh insurgency, state repression, and human rights abuses. This sparked horrific violence aimed at Sikhs in many parts of North India. During this time of violence and instability, Sikhs chose various survival strategies that Milliff investigates in this article.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Coordinators Co-sponsors Below are the 2023 co-sponsors. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. We are confirming continued co-sponsorship for 2024. Every action counts. Determine type of action.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. The group can be any size. Determine type of action. There are a lot of options for organizing your event.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Moreover, as targeted attacks on science, DEI initiatives, health care, and the communities we belong to and serve intensify under the current political administration, overt and covert advocacy and activism efforts will be crucial to maintaining and restoring human rights for the living and dead.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. Looking through the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), you can find relatable wording to each of the seven objectives summarised above. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. Unfortunately, Hage’s experience is far from unique right now. In Israel, attacks on educators and students critical of the state have intensified since October 7, 2023.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Dr. Barakat is a physician, humanitarian, and advocate for social and human rights. Additionally, leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have characterized Israels actions as acts of genocide. Dr. Barakat and Prof.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I sort of fell into leadership roles not just at APSA but also at Wagner College, where I worked between 2012 and 2023 (these days I teach at Clark University). For example, I recently published a piece in the Journal of Human Rights interrogating current US policy on asylum for LGBTQ+ folks.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

CAMERAS ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE In December 2023, as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza entered its third month, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) released photos and videos of military trucks crammed with Palestinian captives: stripped to their underwear, kneeling, blindfolded, and with hands bound behind their backs. This is not far from reality.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 10, 2024

about her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine about how racism shapes health and healthcare; maternal health and midwives; her family of physicians; healthcare as a human right; and more. See More Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa [One] problem was the intersection of environmental racism.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

7, 2023, Hamas attacks — but the unfolding genocide, including the destruction of Gaza’s public health infrastructure and the intentional creation of famine, must be condemned. Swift, hosted by Black Women Radicals on Oct 22, 2023. No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2025

Shes also criticized what she calls the Trump administrations wholesale assault on freedom of speech and human rights. In her 36 years as president, though, McGuire told me, she has never felt so isolated, a lonely voice challenging an agenda she believes demands a vigorous and loud response from all of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This year’s summit lacked the hundreds of protesters who were a constant presence at the 2023 event in Philadelphia, spurring a large and visible security detail and barricades at the hotel entrance. Think about the people who may need a little bit of a nudge,” she said. Who’s gonna unite our country?” Gabbard called to the crowd. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The MAP, which was founded in October 2023, has been helping hundreds of patients across the country, month after month, particularly low-income people in places where abortion is highly restricted or straight-up illegal. Ross, the renowned human rights activist who’s now a professor at Smith College. Five in 1,000,000.

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