Word: humanity
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...they believed. For instance, when my mom learned that an elderly woman from her church was recuperating from a surgery, it wasn't a question of if she would visit. It was a question of whether to bring homemade zwieback or a tray of platz. It was the genuine human warmth of this community that set me thinking about faith in new ways...
...concerns like climate change. Yet global warming arises not merely from chemical reactions and combustion engines, but also from the tangle of institutions, values, incentives, and social arrangements that give rise to these physical phenomena. For example, Americans drive so much not because driving is an inevitable aspect of human life, but because our particular market system prices oil a certain way, because our government favors highways over mass transit, because we inhabit a culture that views casual car use as morally acceptable, and so forth...
Secretary General of Amnesty International Irene Z. Khan said at the Harvard Book Store yesterday that poverty should be considered a serious human rights violation, rather than simply an economic status, a view that she said goes against traditional perceptions of poverty...
...School’s Human Rights Program brought in Khan, a 1979 Law School alum, to discuss her new book, “The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights...
...invited Irene because she is an incredibly influential member of the human rights field but also to celebrate the work of an alum in the field,” said Michael A. Jones, the communications director of the Program...