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Human Rights
March 14, 2023
VOICES: Uniting Dayton for human rights
Tony Talbott writes for the Dayton Daily News Ideas & Voices about Uniting Dayton for Human Rights.
International
March 13, 2023
Building peace, creating dialogue
The story of a group of "rebels" imagining a more just future
Human Rights
March 08, 2023
When the Ferguson uprising came to Geneva
HRC Director of Applied Research and Learning, Dr Joel Pruce writes for Open Global Rights about how a shadow report presented to the Committee Against Torture brought police brutality in the US to the international human rights community.
Libraries
February 28, 2023
E is for Everyone
Librarian Zachary Lewis helped select 82 inaugural titles to establish OhioLINK’s diversity, equity, and inclusion e-book collection.
Human Rights
February 27, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 4)
While lawfare may be a recent concept in legal academia, its use dates back generations in the United States. A prime example of lawfare in motion is the War on Drugs, a generational effort to disrupt minority communities under the mask of curbing drug usage. The War on Drugs failed to end drug usage in the United States, but it achieved substantial growth in the jail system, an increase unevenly made up of people of color.
Human Rights
February 24, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 3)
The “reasonable person” standard used in US law since the 1800s is outdated, because it ignores issues of race and gender, and contributes to negative qualities of colorblindness in the legal community. This objective standard of rationality creates inequality in the legal field that affects many minorities.
Human Rights
February 22, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 2)
In 2022, two million people are imprisoned in America and around 35% of them are Black men. A direct link exists between the American systems of slavery, forced convict labor and the modern mass incarceration of Black men.
Human Rights
February 21, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 1)
Critical race and feminist legal theory are academic concepts that deal with various issues and social constructs but cross over in one theory: intersectionality. You may have heard the term intersectionality discussed in the news and media, but do you really understand what intersectionality is and why it is important?
Human Rights
February 09, 2023
Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa
On January 12, 2023, the Human Rights Center, in partnership with the Frances Lewis Law Center Washington and Lee School of Law, Lexington, VA, the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, South Africa in association with the Center for Global Affairs, New York University hosted the book launch, Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research
February 08, 2023
Surviving ‘Survivor’ — research finds racial and gender discrimination in voting
Survivor contestants discriminate based on race and gender in how they vote people off the island, according to a new study led by a UD psychologist.