The Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Cardozo Law School in NYC hosted a conference on March 30, 2009. The conference, entitled “Healing the Wounds: Speech, Identity and Reconciliation in Rwanda,” featured presentations by anthropologists, lawyers, professors, civil servants and Rwandan genocide survivors. The speakers came together...
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Conference to Commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide
Human Trafficking in the Middle East: A Formerly Taboo Topic Gains Awareness
Human trafficking is a particularly taboo subject in the Middle East. Many experts have recommended that acknowledging the problem is the first step towards solving it. Bahrain recently hosted the “Human Trafficking at the Crossroads” conference in order address this long-standing taboo topic.
During the conference, held the first week of March 2009, the first...
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Greg Mortenson at Stern School of Business
Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea and the forthcoming Stones in Schools spoke last night at the Stern School of Business in New York.
Here are a few highlights:
• The Pennies for Peace program of Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute is a grassroots campaign started by school kids to donate pennies to build schools,...
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