Four years after George Floyd’s murder, two Washington Post reporters reflect on the retrenchment of the racial-justice movement sparked by his death. In their book, “His Name Is George Floyd,”…
BY WENDY FRY Source: https://calmatters.org/newsletter/inequality-insights-california-reparations/ Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m CalMatters reporter Wendy Fry. California lawmakers voted to offer an official apology for the state’s role in supporting slavery and moved several reparations…
Caitlin Owens Source: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/24/mental-health-pandemic COVID forced us to talk — a lot — about Americans' deteriorating mental health. Four years later, the scale of the problem hardly appears to have gotten…
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A bill that bans child marriage in Sierra Leone has been signed into law, President Julius Maada Bio said late Tuesday, in an effort to…
Source: https://zoryaninstitute.org Zoryan Board Member William Schabas explains on IDEAS, CBC RADIO The Zoryan Institute is pleased to share that Dr. William Schabas recently made a guest appearance on an hour-long episode…
We held our first side-event of the newly established Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) at the The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) bringing together UN Special…
A one-day validation workshop on the findings of the comprehensive research on hate speech in The Gambia, conducted by NHRC with the support of UNESCO, is currently in progress at…
Long Prison Sentences for Reporting on Pollution and Criticizing the Government (San Francisco) – States and United Nations officials meeting in Geneva at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights…
A comprehensive cessation of hostilities is necessary for the country to reap the benefits of effective transitional justice. Last month, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Justice announced the completion of the roadmap for implementing…
A recent discovery in DNA editing technology has the potential to revolutionize genome editing beyond what is currently possible with CRISPR-based techniques. Known as the "bridge editing" system, this new…