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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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Human Rights Reconsidered
The birth of the disabled people’s movement and what does it mean for human rights activists.
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Detroit in 10 articles & 1 documentary
On July 10, 2018, Humanity in Action’s second annual Detroit Fellowship will begin. Twenty-two Fellows from across Michigan, the United States and the world will convene in Detroit for an intensive exploration of inequality, development and opportunity in the iconic American city.
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ROMA - A Discussion of Diversity and the Treatment of Minorities in Europe: Unit 1
Explore the European Roma's history and the contemporary issues they face regarding race, identity, discrimination, and their impacts on European politics through the first unit of Humanity in Action Denmark's and CanopyLAB's e-course.
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ROMA - A Discussion of Diversity and the Treatment of Minorities in Europe: Unit 2
Explore the European Roma's history and the contemporary issues they face regarding race, identity, discrimination, and their impacts on European politics through the second unit of Humanity in Action Denmark's and CanopyLAB's e-course.
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ROMA - A Discussion of Diversity and the Treatment of Minorities in Europe: Unit 3
Explore the European Roma's history and the contemporary issues they face regarding race, identity, discrimination, and their impacts on European politics through the third unit of Humanity in Action Denmark's and CanopyLAB's e-course.
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ROMA - A Discussion of Diversity and the Treatment of Minorities in Europe: Unit 4
Explore the European Roma's history and the contemporary issues they face regarding race, identity, discrimination, and their impacts on European politics through the fourth and final unit of Humanity in Action Denmark's and CanopyLAB's e-course.
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The First Time I was Called a Spic
Fellow Antonio Lopez traces an incident of racism through his family's history in this poem.
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An Index of Encounters
Palimpsests are often imperfectly erased. Layer after layer, when a new growth is formed, vestiges of the past are left behind. Senior Fellow Michelle Shofet's and Senior Fellow Marissa Schneiderman's curiosity moved them to seek out these traces—physical, emotional, psychological, and cultural. ŻYD: An Index of Encounters, is the result.
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.