What the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) contributed to American society should not be understated. They not only changed policy, they changed a culture.
Archive for April, 2010
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Posted in: Education & Youth, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: antidiscrimination, civil rights, democracy, Patricia Jerido, SNCC
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Three years ago, Alexander Gerasimov went to the police station to check on his stepson, who had been arrested. Instead of helping him, police accused Gerasimov of murder, held him in detention, and tortured him.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alexander Gerasimov, Central Asia, criminal justice, Kazakhstan, Masha Lisitsyna, police abuse, torture
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Though officials wax optimistic that the upcoming US and NATO offensive in Kandahar will turn the tide in Afghanistan, those I spoke to feared it would only lead to more civilian harm in a city already ravaged by years of conflict.
Posted in: Asia, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Erica Gaston, NATO, video
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Instead of scaling up funding to honor its commitment to AIDS treatment and prevention, the Obama Administration is saying enough is enough. It is telling the health providers it funds that they can only put new people on AIDS treatment if some of the patients they are already treating die.
Posted in: Africa, Health, United States
Topics: donors, Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, Shannon Kowalski
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At last week’s Council of Europe conference "Safeguards for Free Media: Promoting Effective Guarantees for Freedom of Expression in the South Caucasus, Moldova and Ukraine," the timidity of Council officials was much in evidence.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Media & Arts
Topics: Council of Europe, democracy, journalism, Mark Thompson, OSCE
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After years of blundered wartime detention policy, the U.S. military recently revamped its way of deciding who should be detained and released in Afghanistan.
Posted in: Asia, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Afghanistan, Bagram, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, detention, Jonathan Horowitz
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We hope to see governments and other donors pledge to strengthen national and regional justice systems, so that victims can find redress for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a local level, rather than seeing the International Criminal Court as their only option.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released regulations implementing the anti-prostitution pledge requirement, which undermines HIV/AIDS programs around the world and violates First Amendment free speech protections.
Posted in: Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: anti-prostitution pledge, HIV/AIDS, sex workers, Zoe Hudson
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More than one million children around the world are locked up in prison cells, many of them vulnerable to ill treatment. The vast majority are accused of petty offenses or "uncontrollable behavior," according to the UN Rapporteur on Torture.
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While prejudice and discrimination against people with mental disabilities is sadly universal, European advocates have much to learn from their Kenyan counterparts, particularly with regard to sex education.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health
Topics: HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Judith Klein, Kenya, mental health, sexual education