Foreign Affairs
Apr 22, 2018
REVIEW: The Long Arc of Human Rights: A Case for Optimism
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century By Kathryn Sikkink Princeton University Press, 2017, 336pp. Damir Sagolj...
Genocide Watch
Apr 22, 2018
Where Myanmar Went Wrong: From Democratic Awakening to Ethnic Cleansing
Late last year, when news broke that Myanmar’s military had been systematically killing members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya...
Thomas Farragher | The Boston Globe
Apr 22, 2018
Reclaiming a culture, reclaiming a life
“They tried to kill the Penobscot part of us,’’ Dawn Neptune said. It didn’t work. BANGOR — She was a 4-year-old kid named Dawn Neptune,...
Associated Press 1
Apr 21, 2018
Holocaust survivor warns Polish leaders over Nazi groups
The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz,center, addresses a rally he organized in protest against a recent gathering by far-right groups in...
Rosario A. Iaconis | Newsday
Apr 21, 2018
OPINION: The horrors of genocide
The Armenian genocide — commemorated Tuesday — has been largely expunged from the pages of history thanks to Turkish pressure and Western...
Siranush Ghazanchyan | Public Radio of Armenia
Apr 20, 2018
Garo Paylan submits Armenian Genocide bill to Turkish Parliament
Armenian Member of Turkish Parliament Garo Paylan representing the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has submitted a draft law...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2018
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border
By Caitlin Dickerson On Feb. 20, a young woman named Mirian arrived at the Texas border carrying her 18-month-old son. They had fled...
Human Rights Watch
Apr 19, 2018
Human Rights Abuses of Eritreans, At Home and Abroad. Testimony of Maria Burnett, East and Horn of A
April 18, 2018 Co-Chairman Hultgren and members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to testify today. Thousands of Eritreans,...
Genocide Watch
Apr 19, 2018
What it Means to be an African Migrant Deported From Israel
Meles Ghirmay remembers every moment leading up to his deportation from Israel. "I was hopeful and thinking that they would give me a...
Nduta Waweru | face2faceafrica.com
Apr 19, 2018
Three years in jail for Somaliland woman over ‘contemptuous’ poem
April 15, 2018 A young female poet from Somaliland has been jailed for three years over a poem that advocates the reunification of the...
New York Times 1
Apr 19, 2018
Big Protests in South Africa Force Ramaphosa to End London Visit
LONDON — South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who had traveled to London this week to assure global investors of his...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Apr 19, 2018
Burundi MPs approve police raids without warrants
NAIROBI – The lower house of Burundi's parliament has voted to allow security forces in the politically tense nation to conduct night...
