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Abdelaaty study on human rights, refugee protection published in IJHR
See related: Human Rights, Refugees
Gueorguiev quoted in South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement
See related: China, Government, Human Rights
DeCorse talks to the Sunday Times about Sierra Leone's Bunce Island
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Colonialism, Human Rights
Exec Ed alum links Syracuse’s disability rights work with Uzbekistan
“I am truly impressed by how the academic and research environment for persons with disabilities is advanced and promising for replication in Uzbekistan,” said Mirjakhon Turdiev, a current social science Ph.D. candidate. “A rights-based approach to persons with disabilities and disability understanding in general is something I planned to export to Uzbekistan.”
See related: Central Asia, Disability, Human Rights, Student Experience
Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout
"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."
See related: Gender and Sex, Human Rights, State & Local, United States
Monde-Anumihe featured in Guardian Woman
See related: Human Rights, International Affairs
Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
See related: Black, Education, Gender and Sex, Housing, Human Rights, United States
Faulkner quoted in The Nation piece on origins of the American boycott
Lucretia Mott, a feminist activist who was involved in the slavery abolition movement, believed that "you have to change the way people think and feel about slavery, not the way that they vote" analyzes Carol Faulkner, associate dean and professor of history.
See related: Human Rights, Labor, Race & Ethnicity, United States
Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India
See related: Human Rights, Religion