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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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Simulation Games: "Thawing the Freeze" & "Meeting of Perspectives"
In response to a need for modern civics education in post-Soviet Moldova, Humanity in Action teamed up with the U.S. Peace Corps, Moldovan university students and the Moldovan NGO MilleniuM for a conference designed to explore diversity and democracy and develop innovative simulation games to teach human rights and active citizenship in the small post-Soviet country.
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Stop le Contrôle au Faciès
Stop le Contrôle au Faciès added the issue of stop and frisk to the media’s agenda during a presidential campaign, paving the way for the first class action lawsuit of its kind and encouraging legislators to draft three proposed laws that would require police officers to record these stops, in an effort to collect official data on stop and frisk incidents.
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Justice, Reconciliation and Human Rights
Members of the Fetzer Advisory Council on Law Professions deliver the Keynote "Justice, Reconciliation and Human Rights" at the Third Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Hans Binnendijk's Remarks at the 2012 Humanity in Action International Conference
Hans Binnendijk, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and Chair of Humanity in Action, Inc., delivers remarks at the 2012 Humanity in Action International Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Welcome Remarks for the Sarajevo Conference
Welcome Remarks by Lamija Tanović (Founding Chair, Humanity in Action Bosnia and Herzegovina) for the Third Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 27th, 2012.
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Dr. Judith Goldstein's Remarks at the 2012 Humanity in Action Conference
Dr. Judith Goldstein, Founder and Executive Director of Humanity in Action, delivers remarks at the 2012 Humanity in Action International Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Highlights of President Bill Clinton's Keynote Address in Sarajevo
Watch the Highlights of President Bill Clinton's Keynote Address in Sarajevo.
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Humanitarian Asylum Policy: Does Denmark Believe in It?
Denmark can and must take part in reforming Europe’s asylum situation – on both the European and national levels.
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.