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Babafemi Akinrinade »
Babafemi Akinrinade, Assistant Professor of Human Rights, Fairhaven College, WWU The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998 was, and remains, a significant step in the fight against impunity. To what extent is read more... |
Ernesto Sagás »
Ernesto Sagás, PhD Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University It has been said that the Caribbean, as a crossroads of empires, has always been globalized. Because of those powerful external forces acting on small populations, migration has been a read more... |
Michele Wucker »
Michele Wucker, Executive Director of the World Policy Institute Haiti desperately needs the world's help. Four devastating storms last year destroyed nearly all of its crops, much of its livestock, and many of the roads that farmers need to get their goods to read more... |
Ariel Sabar »
Ariel Sabar, award winning journalist In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they read more... |
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana »
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Professor and Director of Faculty for the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, Los Angeles When we consider the relative costs and contributions of immigrants to U.S. society, the general assumption is that adults make contributions, while children are only a drain: they “take” from the read more... |
