An International Student-Teacher Collaboratory
Themes covered in the Summer Intensive in Human Rights include Conflict Resolution, Environment, and Ethics.
Over the course of this seminar we will discuss human rights issues in Africa, Asia, Israel-Palestine, and North America.
Participants blog about human rights issues here.
We're also building a wiki about the human rights issues we're covering.
Resources for human-rights research can be found here.
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"For the first time in six years, the Oscars ratings dipped---down to an estimated 36.6 viewers. |
"Gazans flee floods caused by Israel's dams opening"It seems that Israel has comitted yet another human rights violation in Gaza. As usual there has been no coverage of this incident by mainstream media outlets. 'Brigadier Gerneral Said Al-Saudi, chief of the civil defence agency in Gaza, told Al Jazeera: "Israel opened water dams, without warning, last night, causing serious damage to Gazan villages near the border. |
The UN court will rule on the case filed by Croatia in 1999, in which they accused Serbia of committing genocide during the 1991-1995 war. Read more here.
A blog run by Mariame Kaba of Project NIA on the Prison Industrial Complex, its effects, and dismantling it through alternatives like transformative justice. Very relevant to discussions we've been having around prison abolition.http://www.usprisonculture.com/
The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility has a series of lessons focused around current justice and human rights issues, accessible at http://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons. Recent lesson topics include #BlackLivesMatter, #JeSuisCharlie, and more.
