Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Furthermore, Article 28 of the law states that violence against older adults is considered to be any single or repeated conduct, whether by action or omission, that causes harm of any nature or that violates the enjoyment or exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, precisely as physical restraint does.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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.” The post Under the Baghdad Sun appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights where Abalajon served as a translator.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

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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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses. Even the United States government, Israel’s main ally and a relentless weapons provider, expressed concern. This is not far from reality.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In a recent commentary for the Journal for the Anthropology of North America , anthropologists Michele Friedner and Christine Sargent describe a conference in December 2023 in Amman, Jordan, that Friedner attended with journalists reporting on disability-related topics in the Middle East.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But even the companies seeking to require users to either provide their data or else pay for access aren’t reinforcing the idea that users “own” data so much as they are converting privacy from a right into a service. I believe that tackling the elitism underlying the industry-academia divide is a worthy goal, and also an urgent one.

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