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From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...
...social studies concentrator focusing on human rights and conflict, Bakker spent the past two summers abroad conducting research for his senior thesis. In 2008 he observed the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and in 2009 he studied the Special Court for Sierra Leone. His research focuses on the benefits of making international criminal law more accessible to the communities actually affected by rights abuses, noting that this was the case in Sierra Leone, but not with...
...Harvard, Finkton and a Quincy House roommate, Sangu J. Delle ’10, have raised over $50,000 and enlisted the aid of about 50 Harvard students and professors to create irrigation systems, boreholes, latrines, and hygiene education programs in communities in Uganda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia...
...requested anonymity. And there are widespread reports of new militia training camps that have been set up in the hinterlands to train new paramilitary forces. Thierno Sow, president of the Guinean Organization for Human Rights (OGDH), claims the camps are outside a town called Forecariah near the border with Sierra Leone and that they are being run by mercenary instructors from South Africa and Israel. Corinne Dufka, the West Africa regional director for the New York-based Human Rights Watch, could not confirm the existence of foreign instructors, but said the training "is definitely going on." The junta is "digging...
Even now, not everyone is happy with the package of bills Schwarzenegger says he will sign. Many key provisions were weakened during the final weeks of negotiations, and the Sierra Club, for one, opposed the legislation, saying too little is being achieved. But frequent foes in the past, including the Westlands Water District, representing agribusiness, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the state's biggest urban supplier, came together to support the legislation. "No one is getting 100% of what they want," says Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat, but "it is the only...