AHDA alumna Asena Günal (Anadolu Kültür) and longtime friend of the program, Meltem Aslan (Co-Director of Truth Justice Memory Center) were among a group of activists who were arrested in Turkey. Please see Amnesty International’s full article, which appeared on Nov.16, 2018, can be found here (and is copied below): …
Activists staged a protest in Belgrade over the conviction of eight Youth Initiative for Human Rights members who disrupted a speech by convicted Serbian war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin in 2017. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR, was joined by other rights groups at a protest in Belgrade on Thursday …
In Maine, for much of the 20th century, child-welfare workers routinely removed Wabanaki children from their homes and placed them in foster …
At the end of the Cold War and with the collapse of the Soviet empire in Central and Eastern Europe, it was …
Read Elisabeth Zerofsky’s article, which appears in the New Yorker, in which she explores how the debate about Poland’s past has revealed …
Hatidza Mehmedovic, 65, Dies; Spoke Out for Bosnia Massacre Victims By Barbara Surk (NEW YORK TIMES) Hatidza Mehmedovic, a fearless campaigner for …
Greetings to all of our colleagues in the Historical Justice and Memory Network! We are happy to present the newest issue of our series of …
Check out the essay by Network board member Katharine McGregor and Vera Mackie. Source: History and Memory, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring/Summer …
An article in the New York Times reports on a historic apology.
Rana Tanveer, a human rights activist in Pakistan and an alumnus of the Historical Dialogue and Accountability program at Columbia University, was …