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Amid calls to return antiquities, historian finds documents that reveal many were not result of imperial plunder.
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Sandra Hemme was 20 years old when she was found guilty of stabbing to death library worker Patricia Jeschke from St Joseph, Missouri, in November 1980. She was given a life sentence. There was no evidence that linked her to the crime other than a confession she gave under heavy sedation in a psychiatric hospital, a review into her case found. Now 64, she is believed to have served the longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in US history according to her representatives.
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On the heels of this year’s Nelson Mandela International Day, marked annually on 18 July, we are taking you back in time to an epic moment at the United Nations in the 1990s when the anti-apartheid hero and icon made a historic debut in the UN General Assembly Hall as the first democratically elected President of South Africa. |
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El 19 de julio de 2024, la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) emitió una opinión consultiva con importantes consecuencias para la protección de los derechos humanos en Palestina bajo los 57 años de ocupación israelí. La opinión se deriva de una solicitud de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en diciembre de 2022 al tribunal para que considerara las consecuencias jurídicas de las políticas y prácticas de Israel en el Territorio Palestino Ocupado.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, with significant consequences for human rights protections in Palestine under Israel’s 57-year occupation. The opinion stems from a December 2022 request by the United Nations General Assembly to the court to consider the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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“I think archiving memory, archiving our stories, archiving our current collective history in the making is immensely important to resist both erasure and theft of narrative as well as perversion of narrative all of which are happening at the same time” - susan abulhawa
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Tight security may be the reason that the GOP Convention isn’t filled with the homemade, and often wacky, stuff that’s usually found by Smithsonian political ephemera curators at the event.
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The 107-page report, “‘Your Child Does Not Exist Here’: Human Rights Abuses Against Children Under El Salvador’s ‘State of Emergency,’” documents arbitrary detention, torture, and other forms of ill-treatment against children under President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs.” Detained children have often faced overcrowding, lack of adequate food and health care, and have been denied access to their lawyers and family members. In some cases, children have been held, in the first days after...
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The federal government is set to formally apologize to Dakota and Lakota Nations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan on Monday for historically recognizing them as refugees, a label that one chief says turned them into "second-class First Nation citizens."
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Special teams, comprising the Krishna district police and the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB), are investigating the destruction of records belonging to the APPCB. Officials suspect that the records were burnt to "destroy the evidence on the irregularities”.
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Brussels’ AfricaMuseum, founded to glorify a brutal project, faces demands for restitution of exquisite treasures stolen from Belgian Congo
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L'ONU a célébré jeudi la première Journée internationale de réflexion et de commémoration du génocide de 1995 à Srebrenica, honorant la mémoire de 8.000 musulmans bosniaques brutalement tués par l'armée serbe de Bosnie. |
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The UN on Thursday observed the first International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, honouring the memory of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims brutally killed by the Bosnian Serb army. |
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The reality of the court’s decision is that there isn’t a number to quantify Black pain for survivors and their lineage
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In February 2024, the Minister of Education in Morocco unveiled plans to gradually introduce the teaching of the Berber (Amazigh) language in primary schools, marking a significant shift in educational policy. The decision responds to longstanding demands from linguistic activists, underscoring the growing momentum behind efforts to preserve the language and culture of Morocco's indigenous communities.
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En 2019, au Pakistan, la localité de Ratodero est sous le feu des projecteurs lorsqu’un médecin révèle que des milliers d’enfants ont été contaminés par le VIH. Le scandale de Ratodero est la plus grande épidémie de VIH jamais enregistrée chez des mineurs en Asie. Désormais, ces enfants sont discriminés et traités comme des parias.
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Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. With this funding from the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program, Walker will partner with co-investigator Ruth Borja Santa Cruz, a professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, to preserve documents that chart a history of human rights in the country.
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The top official at Indigenous Services Canada addressed the issue of Indigenous identity in the public service by urging greater honesty in self-identification, signalling what one elder calls “a growing tension” around the issue inside government.
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Les troupes coloniales allemandes entre 1904 et 1908 massacrèrent 60 000 Herero et 10 000 Nama. Ce massacre est considéré par les historiens comme le premier génocide du XXème siècle. Afrique, mémoires d’un continent propose de revenir sur ce crime oublié de l’histoire coloniale africaine.
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L'archidiocèse de Saint-Jean à Terre-Neuve devra payer 104 millions $ aux 292 victimes d'abus sexuels dont la majorité l'a été à l'orphelinat Mount Cashel.
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