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...name, on my behalf and on behalf of all the educators, the teachers, the librarians, and booksellers in this country who supported The Kite Runner and made a donation to the organization that I'm affiliated with, the U.N. Refugee Agency. They built a school in a region I had visited last year, just about 150 kilometers from Kabul in Northern Afghanistan. That school is a beautiful pink building. It has 270 students, grades 1 through 6, six teachers, two of them women. A third of the students are girls. There have been threats against them that they should...
Looking to recent efforts of grassroots organizations in the region, students debated the merits of “trickle-down” and “trickle-up” approaches to human rights in Latin America, as part of the “Diálogo Latinoamericano” series yesterday evening...
...through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) international program shared their experiences with the attendees. The debate mostly focused on Peru, in light of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori’s ongoing trial, which has led to the return of human rights reforms in the region...
Kimberly B. Harshbarger ’10, who interned in Peru in the Ayacucho region 20 years after a period of ongoing human rights violations in the country, talked about her work with a grassroots organization. “The majority of our work there was taking care of the family members [of massacre victims],” she said. “The goal wasn’t meting out punishment. This was frustrating...
...find multilateral support for military intervention. The United Nations and most developed states will not support a repeat of Bush-like bellicosity, especially when it involves Saudi-financed Pakistan. In any case, China will most certainly block a Security Council vote to invade its closest partner in the region. And India is unlikely to go it alone with the risk of nuclear...