Tag: Human Rights

  • Nation & World

    Human rights — ‘vision and reality’

    Scholars reflect on movement 75 years after landmark document adopted by U.N.

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    Overview of large hall gathering first session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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    ‘To understand the world but also to change the world’

    Arthur Kleinman pays tribute to beloved student with new class that explores wide-ranging intellectual contributions of Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer.

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    Paul Farmer (right) and Arthur Kleinman were photographed circa 2019 in the faculty room at Gordon Hall.
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    Humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan?

    The director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative talks about Afghanistan’s probable future without aid.

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    Afghan people wait at Kabul's airport.
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    Reimagining rights

    A report released by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights offers 80 recommendations for reimagining Americans’ rights and responsibilities.

    3 minutes
    Citizen ceremony.
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    A global look at LGBT violence and bias

    Q&A with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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    Victor Madrigal-Borloz
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    Real talk

    Playwright and director Ifeoma Fafunwa brings the hopes and challenges of Nigerian women to Harvard with “Hear Word!,” making its U.S. premiere at the Harvard Dance Center this weekend.

    5 minutes
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    Fighting for disarmament

    Disarmament expert Bonnier Docherty talks about cluster bombs, incendiary and explosive weapons, which are widely used in modern warfare, the threats they pose to civilians, and why countries should restrict their use.

    11 minutes
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    A hard look at war’s reparations

    A Harvard study of Colombia’s civil war reparations program says it is the largest of its kind and well-received by the population, but may be too big for its own good.

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    Ferguson: Through a global lens

    The events unfolding in Ferguson, Mo., are being watched around the world. The way the grand jury’s decision and its aftermath are being perceived abroad may be categorically different than how they are understood at home, according to Harvard Kennedy School historian and Associate Professor Moshik Temkin on this week’s episode of PolicyCast.

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    Voice of the brutalized

    Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researchers polled residents of a war-torn part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, finding that though many think the security situation has improved, trust in government is at a low ebb.

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    The leadership of Cesar

    Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.

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    Understanding India’s rape crisis

    In a question-and-answer session, Jacqueline Bhabha talks about the pervasive crime of rape in India and the impact of the death sentences issued last week to four men who were convicted of the 2012 gang rape of a woman on a Delhi bus.

    17 minutes
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    Reflections on justice delayed

    Harvard History Professor Caroline Elkins discusses last week’s $30 million settlement in the long-running Mau Mau case, in which the British government apologized for colonial-era atrocities during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion.

    7 minutes
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    Where corporations, public meet

    After six years of work, Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Ruggie has developed United Nations-approved guidelines to ensure businesses respect the human rights of those they interact with around the world.

    5 minutes
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    An experiment gone horribly awry

    Victims of U.S. syphilis experiments in Guatemala are still awaiting compensation that may or may not come, even as new laws passed in the wake of 9/11 make it harder, in some circumstances, to sue disease researchers for wrongdoing, panelists at Harvard Law School said.

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    Freedom in motion

    Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the Godkin Lecture and took questions from students last night at Harvard Kennedy School.

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    Death penalty in decline

    A Harvard Law School panel looks at the future of the death penalty worldwide and sees a decline in this “organized violence” by nation-states — but a few “dark spots” too.

    6 minutes
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    With health rights denied, a patient had no hope

    Those interested in health and human rights from around the world gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health this week for an executive education program intended to provide practical lessons in rights litigation and create a community for those who care about extending health care to all.

    4 minutes
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    Strong evidence

    The work of a Harvard history professor has bolstered the case of a group of elderly Kenyans who are seeking reparations from the British government for rape, castration, beatings, and other abuses that they say occurred during colonial-era efforts to suppress Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising.

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    Accompanying the underserved

    “The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.

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    A call to action, amid acting

    A.R.T.’s “Prometheus Bound” ties the ancient Greek play to modern human rights.

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    Quashing a voice, attacking a Nobel

    A Nobel Peace Prize for jailed Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo brought a flood of criticism from China’s ruling Communist Party. The reaction shows China’s dedication to maintaining its “moral authority” at home, said Bao Pu, publisher of a new book of Liu’s essays.

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    Human rights at a crossroad

    The decade-old University Committee on Human Rights Studies was disbanded in June, having largely achieved its goals of promoting cross-disciplinary research and creating human rights-centered courses for undergraduates. In that light, Tuesday’s annual reception became a tone-setting event for the next phase of human rights scholarship.

    4 minutes
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    Neuman elected to Human Rights Committee

    Gerald Neuman ’80, the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the Human Rights Committee, the premier treaty body in the U.N. human rights system.

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    Mallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship

    The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which will support her travel, study, and writing on gender issues in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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    Excellence honored

    The American Political Science Association has recognized three Harvard affiliates for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics.

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    Marie-Ange Bunga of HKS starts Congo Initiative at Harvard

    Outgoing Harvard Kennedy School student Marie-Ange Bunga started the Congo Initiative at Harvard, aiming to increase awareness about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and hopes her cause will live on in the next generation of concerned students.

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    Horror, by custom

    Radcliffe Fellow looks at the painful ‘facts and realities’ facing women in Pakistan.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School

    For a week in late January, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after a 2009 coup in which Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the country’s military.

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    Passionate advocate of human rights

    Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.

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