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Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
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Niels Bak: Charting the Path to Transformative Change: From Advisory Power to Real Influence in Global Governance
The Declaration on Future Generations underscores the responsibility of today's generations to ensure the prosperity and security of future ones. It fosters a sustainable and equitable global community.
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'HOME' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
What is home, when you are forced to flea, when what you thought was your home suddenly becomes a warzone? What defines a home? Our Fellows, Alina Savchenko, Mira Vance, Marie-Louise Skov Jensen, and Colin Tredway, share with us their definition of home.
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'ARTIVISM' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
With sounds from the Roskilde Festival you can learn more on Artivism and how Danish Rapolitics combines art, politics, human rights, and hip hop. Brought to you by the 2022 Copenhagen Fellows Irene Franco Rubio, Dimitra Lazaridou, and Jaden Evans.
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'LGBT+ ON THE FAROE ISLANDS' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
2022 Fellows Caroline Lindey, Liudmyla Lesiv, and Julius Jensen interviewed Finn Ferja, who spoke at the 2022 Copenhagen Fellowship, about the evolvement of LGBT+ rights on the Faroe Islands.
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'COLONIALISM' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Learn more about the role of colonialism and education in the present day relationship between Denmark and Greenland as well as the two countries' shared history. This podcast is created by Maida Zagorac, Paulina Saerbeck, and Sonya Zayneb Ouertani during the 2022 Copenhagen Fellowship.
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'RAISING A RED FLAG' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Can a flag be apolitical? Listen to this podcast from the 2022 Copenhagen Fellows and learn more about Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark's shared history and how the flag has come to play a role in it.
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'THE ARCTIC WINTER GAMES' - from the 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS Cph Fellowship podcast series
Did you know that the Inuit game of 'finger pulling' has become an official discipline in the Arctic Winter Games? Have you even heard about the Arctic Winter Games? Learn about Finger Pulling, its history and meaning, and the olympics of the Arctic in this podcast from the 2022 Cph Fellowship
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To Lesbos and Back Again: In a Continent That Has Forgotten Its Humanity
Nanna Vedel-Hertz, Master of Arts in Journalism, Media and Globalization, shares her experiences of travelling to a refugee camp on Lesbos, her disbelief in how human rights are discarded at the European borders and elsewhere, and the role of media.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover our international Humanity in Action publications:
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.
Oktober '43: Danske jøders flugt til Sverige eller deportation til Theresienstad
Oktober '43: Danske jøders flugt til Sverige eller deportation til Theresienstad contains many interviews that explore the political considerations and decisions of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the rescue mission across the Øresund strait and Sweden’s reception of the refugees.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.