BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
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Interdisciplinary program will examine humanity’s darkest moments, have a human rights focus One step to keeping history’s darkest events...
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‘It Was Horror’: Ukrainians Share Grim Tales of Russian Occupation
With Russian soldiers pushed out of parts of the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian investigators have been overwhelmed with accounts of...
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Las torturas, amenazas y maltratos que sufren las mujeres afganas que protestan por sus derechos
La organización Human Rights Watch recabó testimonios de algunas de las víctimas de los extremistas que retomaron el control de Kabul en...
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Press Briefing -- Iran protests: Reports of child deaths, detentions are deeply worrying
DELIVERED BY Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani A month after demonstrations erupted across...
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In focus: Women, peace and security
On 20 October, 2022, the UN Security Council will convene for the Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (watch it live at 10 AM EST)....
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Russia using rape as ‘military strategy’ in Ukraine: UN envoy
Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, at a Security Council meeting in New...
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Russian women pay the price in protests against Putin's war
Women in Russia make up a rising proportion of those being detained in protests against President Vladimir Putin's mobilisation for the...
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Iran protests: ‘At least 185 people including 19 children’ killed during unrest
Online videos claim to show minors and pregnant women being beaten by gangs of riot police. At least 185 people – including 19 children –...
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Yet Another Attack On The Hazara In Afghanistan
On September 30, 2022, a suicide attack inside the Kaaj Educational Center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of West Kabul, Afghanistan,...
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Iran: journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price
Iran's riot police forces stand in a street in Tehran, Iran October 3, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS DUBAI, Oct 11...
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