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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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Documentary: "Theresienstadt - Danish Children in Nazi Captivity"
Senior Fellow Solvej Berlau decided to create a documentary film about Danish Holocuast survivors the by telling the stories of six Jewish children who were transported from Denmark to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt.
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Toward Durable Solutions for the Internally Displaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina
By conducting interviews with members of Bosnia’s internally displaced population, this project aims to identify and recommend possible solutions to the challenges these individuals face.
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Humanity in Action Hangout with Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde Thurston delivers his Keynote "Then They Laugh At You: A Conversation about Art, Politics and Activism" via Google Hangout for the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
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Sierra Leone Memory Project
This is a preview of the Sierra Leone Memory Project. Launched by the Jeneba Project and sponsored by Humanity In Action, it is an oral history prlejct dedicated to recording oral histories of former child soldiers, amputees, rape victims and all those who lived through the violent civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002.
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Just Business? The Unknown World of Male Prostitution in the Netherlands
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Senior Fellow Action Day 2019
During the 2019 Copenhagen Fellowship, Senior Fellows led workshops, lectures and discussions on a myriad of issues.
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Undocumented Workers: Living, Working and Mobilizing in Paris
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The Bijlmer: a Dutch Approach to Multiculturalism
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
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.
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.
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.