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Translation Notes

Sapiens

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. In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N.

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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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“Amarrados”: Physical Restraint in Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults in Lima, Peru

Anthropology News

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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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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Under the Baghdad Sun

Anthropology News

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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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity?

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

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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.”.