human rights

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/29/2022
  

  Russia's Memorial Forced to Downsize its Tribute to Stalinist Victims

  “The point in returning the names is that we’re naming the victims,” said Yan Rachinsky, the chairman of Memorial’s board. “But the question inevitably arises: If there are victims of crime, then there are criminals, and there are reasons for the crime. These are no longer things that our authorities are ready to discuss.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/27/2022
  

  Spain's New Citizenship Law for Exiles from Franco Portends Massive Return from Latin America

  Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country. 

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• SOURCE: London Review of Books
  10/13/2022
  

  Understanding Colombia's Truth Commission Report after 60 Years of Civil Conflict

  by Rachel Nolan

  Colombia's armed conflict between government forces, leftist rebels, and paramilitary death squads is the world's longest continuous conflict. The nation's massive Truth Commission report undermines decades of official government narrative about the apportionment of blame for atrocities. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Voice
  10/6/2022
  

  Philadelphia Apologizes for Prison Experiments on Inmates

  University of Pennsylvania Dermatology professor Albert Kligman tested medicines and other products on prison inmates between 1951 and 1974. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/7/2022
  

  Honored by Nobel Peace Prize, Memorial Preserves Knowledge of Soviet Atrocities and Warns of Present Imperialism

  The Nobel committee gave an implicit rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in honoring the organization, which was shut down as a "terrorist" group last year, forcing some leaders into exile. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/16/2022
  

  Isaac Chotiner Interviews Deborah Lipstadt

  Is partnership with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia a good strategy to reduce antisemitism in the Middle East? 

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• 9/4/2022
  

  UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US

  by Alan J. Singer

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called out American health disparities, police abuse and crackdowns on protesters as key failures of the United States to address racial inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
  8/31/2022
  

  DoD's Plan to Reduce Civilian Casualties Will Humanize Endless War

  by Samuel Moyn

  Reducing the brutality of war while tolerating its existence will entrench war as a permanent feature of global politics. 

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• SOURCE: New America
  8/23/2022
  

  Keisha Blain's New Project Looks to Black Women Activists as Architects of Modern Human Rights Campaigns

  "As someone who is very committed to unearthing the histories of Black working-class and working-poor women, I have had to move beyond the traditional archive."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/16/2022
  

  Franklin Foer on Paul Manafort's Memoir

  With a memoir titled "political prisoner," Paul Manafort "now places himself in the same category as the victims of rape and beatings whose suffering he was once handsomely paid to minimize."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/16/2022
  

  Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment Policies in Northern Ireland

  by Jack Sheehan

  Tapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2022
  

  Is there a Way for LIV Golfers to Avoid Helping Saudi Arabia "Sportswash" its Human Rights Abuses?

  by Lane Demas

  If the golfers who have been drawn to the new LIV tour by the lavish money offered by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund want to, they can choose to be more than mere pawns in a plan to use sports to sanitize the regime's human rights record. 

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• SOURCE: Quincy Institute
  8/1/2022
  

  Post-Cold War Interventions show Military Restraint is the Key to Protecting Human Rights

  by Aslı Bâli

  America's foreign policy establishment must "right-size" its expectations about the ability of US military power to secure desired outcomes, and prepare to embrace non-coercive approaches to human rights crises that will be precipitated by climate change and food crises. 

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• 7/8/2022
  

  The Wagner Group is Just the Latest Example of Privatized War

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Hiring soldiers of fortune to wage war has long been profitable to mercenaries and politically advantageous to rulers. Its modern resurgence with the American Blackwater organization and the Russian Wagner Group show the need for stronger cooperative security to prevent human rights abuse.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  These Books Tell of Change Happening Slowly, then Suddenly

  Historians Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, Kate Clifford-Larse and Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor are among the authors whose books dig beneath the surface of famous leaders to describe how social movements built the strength to change laws, institutions and ideas. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/4/2022
  

  In Ukraine, the US Likely to Follow Kissinger's Example and Disappoint Idealists

  by Jeffrey Fields

  "From tacit support of the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War to Washington’s close relationship with brutal human rights abuser Saudi Arabia, the U.S. frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values."

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• 3/17/2022
  

  This March 17, Remember the 80th Anniversary of the Escalation of the Slaughter of Jews at Belzec

  by Rick Halperin

  March marks a grim anniversary of the escalation of the Nazi "final solution" of genocide that should be remembered amid widespread revelry in America.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  2/22/2022
  

  Excavation at Mass Grave in County Galway Could Begin This Year

  The remains of children buried in a mass unmarked grave in Tuam, County Galway, could be exhumed later this year under newly-published legislation.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
  2/16/2022
  

  Harvard Law Prof Responds to Critics of His "Comfort Women" Claims, Fails to Squelch Controversy

  Two Harvard historians (and several colleagues at other instituitons) say that Mark Ramseyer's defense of his article claiming Korean "comfort women" freely contracted their labor as sex workers serving Japanese soldiers during World War II ignores the substance of their criticism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/14/2022
  

  The Public Will be the Ultimate Judge of Whether the Olympics Soften China's Image

  by Michael J. Socolow

  China is doing all it can to use the winter games as a statement of its belonging in the world community. It will be up to the viewers to ask critical questions about the media coverage and spectacle.