Snapshots of the early pandemic in U.S. prisons
Beginning in early April 2020, a group of Tufts-affiliated researchers began work with the World Peace Foundation to track COVID
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Human Rights and Justice
96 Deaths in Detention: A View of COVID-19 in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as Captured in Death Notices
On March 28th, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported the first death of someone in their custody: Patrick Jones, a
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Where we stand and what we’re doing
The World Peace Foundation stands with the African American-led movement demanding equality and justice and denouncing police brutality. Throughout history, Black-led justice movements—some originating in the US, but also from within Africa and across the diaspora—have resisted oppression and injustice, and have inspired others to do the same. Today is no different.
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Background on Data | Federal | State Prisons | County Jails | ICE | Juvenile (Updated June 15, 2020) Background–the
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Background on Data | Federal | State Prisons | Parish Jails | ICE | Juvenile (Updated June 12, 2020) Overview
Read moreStaying safe in armed conflict contexts
In case you missed our program this afternoon, below is a re-cap via storify, with thanks to Roxani Krystalli. The program, Staying safe in armed conflict contexts: What do crisis-affected people prioritize and does it work? Do humanitarian actors and others take note?, focused on self-protection.
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To mark the publication of Advocacy In Conflict: Critical perspectives on transnational activism, ed. Alex de Waal with Jennifer Ambrose,
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A theme that recurred throughout the seminar was the distinction between two kinds of activism: one, principled solidarity with the people affected, pursuing solutions that they themselves define; and two, advocacy for a U.S. (or other western nation) policy response, that frequently defines success in terms of adopting a policy, rather than resolving the situation in the country concerned.
Read moreMaking Sense of Kony
WPF encourages its audience to check out the new coalition effort, Making Sense of Kony. This site includes a blog,
Read moreRemember Alem Bekagn
The new headquarters of the African Union have been built on the site of Addis Ababa’s former central prison, officially called Akaki, but known in Ethiopia as Alem Bekagn, or ‘farewell to the world’, and the site of detentions and massacres, from the Italian occupation of 1936 to the Red Terror of 1977-78.
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