Political Science Now

MAY 22, 2024

student at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Truman School of Government and Public Affairs. Angela’s research interests span human rights, conflict studies, peace studies, African studies, and politics of the Global South. Angela Danso Gyane is a political science Ph.D.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

She is a Fulbright Scholar, International Peace Scholar, recipient of the Associated Federation of Teacher’s Cesar Chavez Human Rights award, and one of University of London’s 2022 Contemporary Woman Philosophers.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence.

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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.” When temperatures rise above 50°C, the government grants public holidays. Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

Black representatives were elected to state and federal government, public schools were made available (for all children), and many (though tragically only a fraction of) formerly enslaved families were reunited. The era following the Civil War, Reconstruction , gets short shrift in high school and is rarely mentioned at all in elementary.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers. They were angry that the government took four months to identify and give Miller a medal for being a hero, when white soldiers received recognition right away.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

We will not fix homelessness until the federal government believes that housing is a human right,” Ronen said. Hopefully we will not need [a program like] this in the future, but right now we do.”. But it’s something. And for individual children it has been everything. “We

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In his role as the head of state and government, President Jokowi transcends the identity of a mere political figure or official; he becomes a personification of the nation itself. Since Indonesia’s Independence in 1945, Pancasila has been used as a tool to legitimize the ruling government and curb the opposition.

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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. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration Recipient: Sarah Rozenblum, Cornell University Title: “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” Leonard D.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

His account situates opposition diplomacy in the context of a wide array of strategies available to opposition parties and examines the mechanisms through which they can contribute to the imposition of sanctions and other policy decisions by foreign governments. Before beginning his Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. States and the federal government could, and should, incentivize districts to open programs where there is the most need, and discourage programs targeted mostly at English speakers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

17, 2018 rally at the Federal Courthouse here to demand government action on firearms. We can do this by centering the voices of the young people, educators and families and human rights advocates that have joined two groups: One group is ready to take to Washington following last week’s tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

As of December 11, over 100 children had yet to be reunited with their families, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees their care. (A A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S. or now back in their home country — who has indicated an “intent not to reunify.”).

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone. Download the lesson for free.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Social bullying, which includes deliberately harming someone’s reputation or relationships, according to a government website , followed at 54 percent. government accountable for transnational militarism and domestic racism by refusing to be drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. We need a team. Muhammad Ali held the U.S.

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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. After graduation, she plans to complete a Ph.D. See all 2024 RBSI Scholars. Learn more about the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Grove City College, which sued the federal government for linking accepting federal financial aid with following anti-discrimination rules. In the storm over how much money the federal government spends on student aid, and the spiraling amount of federal loan debt graduates face, Hillsdale College is an oasis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

Asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico have suffered at least 1,544 incidents of rape, murder, torture or other violent attacks — including 341 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings of children, according to Human Rights First. People died in MPP. People were subjected to severe violence in MPP.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. Government funding per student fell 1.1 Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

former Secretary of Education; Wade Henderson, former president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and Fail State’s director, Alex Shebanow. Leave this field empty if you're human: Waters is featured in the documentary as someone who has long fought for tighter regulations of these institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. People are dying at the intersections of ignorance, gender, race and sex. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. Teen pregnancy in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The lack of a promised federal aid package, combined with teacher shortages, is making it difficult for cash-strapped systems that rely for funding on bereft state and local governments to help students catch up, either in person or virtually.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. Jennifer Rich is executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and an assistant professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Subsequent conversations can focus on media literacy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government. Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others.

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