TopicBLENDED VOICES: A traumatized AfricaDescriptionA history of torture and trauma in our continentAfrica’s relationship to torture, war trauma and violence spans across time, reflectedin the continent’s history of precolonial conflict,…
The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) and the Library at the University of Johannesburg invite you to join…
Updated 13 October On World Mental Health Day, 10 October, the World Health Organization hosted, for the first time ever, a global online advocacy event on mental health. At this event—the Big…
In contrast to vital records, family photos do not impart clear, standardized information and have always posed a genealogical challenge. In 2019, amateur genealogist and data scientist Scott Genzer developed a technique…
A step by step by step checklist for difficult conversations Difficult conversations are never easy, they can come up in the work place as well as in personal situations. Difficult…
For zumrat dawut’s three children, Fridays were terrifying. That was the day when officials would question students at their schools in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang in China’s far…
In recent months, the never-ending heated debate on the Israel-Palestinian conflict has sometimes boiled over to a new debate: Are Jews indigenous to the land of Israel? Thousands of years…
On Sept. 29, a 19 year-old woman died of injuries after she was allegedly gang raped by a group of men in a field in Hathras district, in the north…
Congress' swift and expansive response to the coronavirus pandemic last spring spared millions of Americans from falling into poverty after losing their jobs. But now that the relief has ended,…
Mexico said it has identified two women who may have been operated on without their consent while they were detained by U.S. immigration authorities. Mexico said it has identified two…