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Raising My Voice To #BringBackOurGirls
On Mother’s Day, I spoke at a local march and rally to show support for the nearly 300 school girls abducted a month ago in Nigeria. Here’s what I said: Bring Back Our Girls Twin Cities March May 11,...
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Je Suis Charlie & The Right To Freedom of Expression
Originally published on The Advocates Post This week in Paris, twelve people were killed in a brutal attack on the office of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Among those who lost their lives...
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Human Rights News You May Have Missed (1 – 9 January, 2015)
It probably won’t surprise you one bit that there is a lot of human rights news that is not covered by the US and other Western media. Or sometimes it IS covered, but given only a few lines or buried…...
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Human Rights News You May Have Missed (10 – 16 January)
A roundup of some of the human rights news stories (both good and bad) that I am following this week. TANZANIA declared a ban on witchcraft in an effort to halt deadly attacks on albinos. The move...
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News You May Have Missed (17-23 January)
There was some good news about human rights around the world this week. SOMALIA has become the 195th state party to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). A ceremony was held to mark...
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News You May Have Missed (8-14 February 2015)
A weekly roundup of the human rights news items that I’m following that I think deserve some more attention. SONIA SINGH, a mom in TASMANIA, has been buying Bratz dolls at secondhand shops and giving...
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News You May Have Missed (15-21 February 2015)
A weekly roundup of the human rights news items that I’m following that I think deserve a little more attention. More than 1000 Muslims formed a human shield around a synagogue in Oslo, NORWAY on...
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“All our SPCS family r safe”
Originally published on The Advocates’ Post. “All our SPCS family r safe …” This was the message I received from Anoop Poudel, headmaster at the Sankhu-Palubari Community School (SPCS), on Monday...
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International Women’s Day 2016
Originally published on World Moms Blog Today – Tuesday, March 8 – people all over the world will be celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD). IWD events across the globe include marches, rallies,...
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How Trump’s Executive Order Harms Refugees
I’ve worked with refugees and asylum seekers since 1991. I can’t even tell you how many I have had the privilege to represent, yet I believe that I have only encountered two cases of fraud in more than...
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