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March 4, 2010 at 7:39 pm
At my internship last summer, what I really took away was the importance of pioneering a new approach to human rights. The 20th century approach to human rights was in defining ... (
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March 2, 2010 at 12:15 am
Dear readers: Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and incredibly kind, intelligent, and valuable thoughts you provided in response to my previous post. I think, ... (
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February 20, 2010 at 1:40 am
I haven’t posted in quite a long time, so this isn’t going to be your “typical” Justice for All blog post. Instead, I’m going to ramble on about my ... (
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January 21, 2010 at 7:46 pm
There is a lot of talk of personal branding these days: is it good or bad? How can you build a network of people who respect your personal brand? How can you join a group of people
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January 13, 2010 at 10:28 pm
The earthquake that has just struck Haiti is a natural disaster of massive proportions, and it’s very difficult for us to wrap our heads around it. The current estimated ... (
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January 7, 2010 at 12:26 am
Thanks to Running Chicken, I found an excellent new article by Hunjoon Kim and Kathryn Sikkink: Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries. ... (
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January 4, 2010 at 1:39 pm
In the past decade, as we all know, social enterprise and business has become incredibly popular. The idea is incredibly compelling: utilize business practices while also bettering ... (
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January 1, 2010 at 11:17 am
Recently, I wrote a post about the injustice of international justice – that war criminals are given decent living conditions and fair trials, while more petty criminals ... (
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December 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm
This is the time of year for reflections, and I’m certainly no exception to the rule. So here goes (though I don’t usually talk much about myself on this blog):
In ... (
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December 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I ran across this really excellent post the other day, by Lola Adesioye. I love this quote from her:
I have spent many column inches and airtime talking about the shoulda, woulda ... (
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December 22, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Charles Taylor Trial (Credit: BBC)
I just ran across this fascinating Time interview with Stephen Rapp, who was previously chief prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone ... (
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December 21, 2009 at 1:24 am
An old man walks along a beach and sees a young boy throwing something into the water. As he approaches, he sees hundreds of starfish lining the beach, washed in from the tide. ... (
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December 18, 2009 at 1:55 am
I have just put down “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books” (It was a very disjointed book; I don’t recommend it unless you are an enormous fan of James, ... (
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December 16, 2009 at 2:30 am
Maybe it’s just me, but I increasingly see a problem with activism: it can easily slip from passion to elitism. I’ll be honest; as I became more passionate about human ... (
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December 12, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I ran across this interesting quote recently in this report:
Reverend Miguel d’Escoto Brockman of Nicaragua, President of the General Assembly, tried to frame the dialogue with ... (
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December 11, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Happy Friday, everyone! I am most certainly very happy this Friday because I have handed in all my final papers, finished 3 fellowship applications, and am officially DONE with ... (
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December 5, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I wanted to briefly post these two talks, which I absolutely absolutely loved recently.
1. Shashi Tharoor, on India’s “soft power”
Click here to watch it (unfortunately ... (
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December 4, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Sorry guys, I really wanted to do a Feature Friday today but honestly, I do not have the time. Finals are next week, I’m frantically writing papers and cramming information ... (
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December 1, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Today is World AIDS Day, and I wanted to highlight this issue. 33.4 million people live with HIV worldwide, and there were 2.7 million new cases in 2008. What can you do about ... (
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November 29, 2009 at 4:31 pm
In “Our Turn to Eat,” Michaela Wrong writes about Kenya:
Kenya’s foreign partners failed to grasp that a system of rule based on the ‘Our Turn to Eat’ ... (
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November 27, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving!
From now on, I’m going to keep Feature Fridays shorter and add on a list of my favorite links from the past week or so I constantly ... (
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November 26, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, tweeting, or discussing these issues with me. It genuinely means a lot, and I put time and effort ... (
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November 25, 2009 at 1:46 pm
In the past couple of months (!) I have been incredibly happy to have so many intelligent and passionate Gen Y changemakers stop over at my blog to partake in the Be the Change ... (
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November 20, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Bayard Rustin: it’s a name that is not particularly well-known to most of us. His contribution to the United States civil rights movement usually receives only surface recognition: ... (
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November 18, 2009 at 10:30 am
The Be the Change blog series is coming to an end. I have one final guest post coming up on Friday — and then will be wrapping up the series! I’ve been incredibly impressed ... (
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