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...with them. Currier is indeed fortunate to have Jim and Nadejda spending a year here. Associate Dean Suzy Nelson will announce their appointment tomorrow. Briefly, Jim Cavallaro has served as a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the School’s Human Rights Program. Nadejda Marques is a research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the Harvard School of Public Health’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. We feel very confident that Currier will be in terrific hands...
...they make. Unfortunately, the NLC notes that this pay only “amounts to twenty three percent of the basic subsistence need for food, housing, health care, and clothing for an average sized family of four”. In such cases, a move against China’s human rights violations risks coming off as hypocrisy...
Nevertheless, it is the duty of all firms, especially ones who traffic in information, to make strong statements against tyrannical censorship and inequality. Business is now intrinsic to all human creations, from this newspaper to the roads we drive. By cutting funds to information-filtering states corporations send a message unmatched by governments...
More than sanctions, International Criminal Court threats, or World Bank and United Nations action, today businesses can do the best job of advocating for human rights. In acting on this principle, Google demonstrates its commitment to a fairer world. It has shown that besides selling a highly effective search engine, it can also sell egalitarian ideas...
...complaints of polling irregularities notwithstanding. On Feb. 8, Fonseka was seized by military police for allegedly conspiring to launch a coup, a charge his supporters say is trumped up. The arrest has deepened concerns over the increasing heavy-handedness of Rajapaksa's rule, which has seen allegations of human-rights abuses as well as the suppression of journalists and other organs of dissent. For Fonseka, who is due to be court-martialed, it's a long fall from the glory days of last year when - as Rajapaksa's right-hand man - he led a decisive military campaign ending the three...