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Khashoggi Killing Adds New Dimension to Yemen War — and New Opportunity for United States

Post author By Charlotte Gorman
Post date December 10, 2018
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People survey rubble following airstrikes in Sana'a, Yemen. (Credit Voice of America)

Seventy years ago today, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights that enshrined the idea that every person has fundamental rights regardless of who they are or where they live. Yet since 2016, a civil war in Yemen has escalated into the largest manmade humanitarian crisis in modern memory. The world should […]

Tags Civil War, Congress, human rights, human rights day, Misc, Op-Ed, Saudi Arabia, Senate, United Nations, united states, universal declaration of human rights, yemen

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A Lesson on Religious Violence from South Asia

Post author By Margaret Fox
Post date April 14, 2017
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Khushi Kabir

Photo: persecutionbd This past week, a proponent of religious and ethnic tolerance came to University of Texas Law School to discuss religiously motivated violence in Bangladesh. The Law School’s Rapoport Center hosted the talk by Khushi Kabir (pictured above), activist and public face of Nijera Kori, a Bangladeshi NGO that educates and mobilizes the rural poor […]

Tags Atheism, Bangladesh, Civil War, Hinduism, Independence, Islam, Muslim Extremism, Religious Intolerance, Religious Minorities, Religious Violence, Rural Development, South Asia, Victim blaming