The Work and Life of Hatidza Mehmedovic, Activist and Leader of the Mothers of Srebrenica
Hatidza Mehmedovic, 65, Dies; Spoke Out for Bosnia Massacre Victims By Barbara Surk (NEW YORK TIMES) Hatidza Mehmedovic, a fearless campaigner for …
Working Paper Series No. 14: “The Rhetoric of Buried Testimony: Memory and Absence from the Warsaw Ghetto”
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 …
Essay: Transcultural Memory and the Troostmeisjes/Comfort Women Photographic Project
Check out the essay by Network board member Katharine McGregor and Vera Mackie. Source: History and Memory, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring/Summer …
An Alabama Sit-In in 1960, an Apology and the Lifetimes Between
An article in the New York Times reports on a historic apology.
Journalist Rana Tanveer mentioned in Report of the Special UN Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Rana Tanveer, a human rights activist in Pakistan and an alumnus of the Historical Dialogue and Accountability program at Columbia University, was …
Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2018 – Murat Çelikkan
Civil Rights Defenders is pleased to announce that the Turkish human rights defender Murat Çelikkan has been awarded the Civil Rights Defender …
A Letter from Ayse Bugra to her Husband
From the Free Osman Kavala Website: Prof. Ayşe Buğra wrote a letter to her husband Osman Kavala who is now in prison. …
Columbia University Faculty Urge the Turkish Government to Free Osman Kavala Immediately and to Drop All Charges Against Him
As Columbia University faculty engaged in international scholarship and teaching, we are deeply concerned about the arrest of Osman Kavala, one of …
Breaking the Silence of a History Denied: An Armenian Family’s Story Reimagined
Armen Marsoobian’s exhibit is currently on display at Columbia University, on the fourth floor of the International Affairs Building. Based upon a …
Hrant Dink Foundation receives the 2017 Chirac Prize For Conflict Prevention
Hrant Dink Foundation receives the 2017 Chirac Prize For Conflict Prevention Hrant Dink Foundation is awarded the Chirac Prize For Conflict Prevention by the Chirac …