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Maja Bogojević: Challenging the Illusion of Participation
The Summit of the Future 2024 holds the promise of transformative change through meaningful youth participation and empowerment. By challenging the illusion of participation, establishing global standards, and promoting education and active citizenship, we can empower youth to shape their futures.
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Policing: When the protectors of our rights turn into violators
To shed light on policing as today’s topic, the HIA Detroit Fellows were hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, whose mission is to open minds and change lives through the exploration and celebration of African American history and culture.
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Making Work Work for Detroiters
The 2018 Detroit Fellowship Fellow, Sophia Burns reflects on the first days of the fellowship.
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Discussions in Detroit: Projects and Housing Initiatives
The 2018 Detroit Fellowship Fellow, Alexis Brown reflects on the first days of the fellowship.
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A Day of Questions
The 2018 Detroit Fellowship Fellow, Celeste Goedert reflects on the first days of the fellowship.
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Uncovering the “Forgotten History” of Segregationist Policies
The 2018 Detroit Fellowship Fellow, Coline Constantin reflects on the first days of the fellowship.
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Getting Oriented: In the City and In the Group
The first day of my Humanity in Action Fellowship in Detroit has left me eager for the next twenty-six days. We started the day with introductions which provoked insightful perceptions of wherever we call “home”.
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Technological Change and Human Rights
Facebook Livestream Event with Nani Jansen Reventlow (Director of the Digital Freedom Fund) during the 2018 Humanity in Action Fellowship in Berlin.
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Interview Ai WeiWei
Humanity in Action is pleased to share a 32 minute video of an hour-long conversation on the role of art and organizations like Humanity in Action in upholding civil democracies and humanity in our current, turbulent times with Judith Goldstein and the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at his studio in Berlin.
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.