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Nepal Can Recover, But Only If We Change What Is Happening
Originally published in The Huffington Post. I lived in a tent in Nepal as a refugee from Bhutan in the 1990s. And so it broke my heart this month, when I traveled to Nepal in the wake of the recent earthquake and witnessed Nepalese families living in a sea of plastic tents, much like …
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Blood in the Water
Hundreds of Maya Achi people were murdered to make way for a dam in Guatemala. Decades later, their families finally find justice. Back in 1982, Carlos Chen Osorio was a young man with a family: his wife, Paulina, and their toddler children, Enriqueta and Antonio. Paulina carried their third child inside her, and expected to …
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Are you traveling with us? Or just interested in learning more about human rights issues in India? Below is a list of books and articles that we recommend to delve deeper into this topic. Our “top picks” recommendations are marked with a *. Books * Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Nonfiction) In Spite …
Read MoreHaiti Resources
Are you traveling with us? Or just interested in learning more about human rights issues in Haiti? Below is a list of books and articles that we recommend to delve deeper into this topic. Nonfiction Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul FarmerOn January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds …
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Are you traveling with us? Or just interested in learning more about human rights issues in Guatemala? Below is a list of books and articles that we recommend to delve deeper into this topic. Books I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta MenchúA tragic and moving story of Mayan life and government repression, told by Guatemala’s Mayan …
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Leading Jewish Human Rights Group Urges President Obama to Protect Refugees from Burma
The U.S. must use all means available to rescue the Rohingya people, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority New York, NY – American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish international development and human rights organization, is urging President Barack Obama to use all means available to rescue the 6,000-plus members of the Rohingya community …
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On the Ground in Nepal: 4th Update from AJWS Staff
AJWS’s Director of Disaster Response & International Operations, Samantha Wolthuis, and Associate Director of Risk Management and Administrative Services, Aaron Acharya, traveled to Nepal last week to lead AJWS’s response to the earthquake. This is the fourth on-the-ground update from Samantha and Aaron. Read their first, second, and third updates. Yesterday, we headed east to the Kavrepalanchok district, …
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On the Ground in Nepal: 3rd Update from AJWS Staff
AJWS’s former Director of Disaster Response & International Operations, Samantha Wolthuis, and former Associate Director of Risk Management and Administrative Services, Aaron Acharya, were in Nepal leading AJWS’s earthquake response. This is the third on-the-ground update from Samantha and Aaron. Read their first update here and their second update here. Aaron wrote the update below after …
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On the Ground in Nepal: 2nd Update from AJWS Staff
AJWS’s Director of Disaster Response & International Operations, Samantha Wolthuis, and Associate Director of Risk Management and Administrative Services, Aaron Acharya, are in Nepal this week leading our response to the earthquake. This is the second on-the-ground update from Samantha and Aaron. Read their first update here. Today, Aaron and I went on a site …
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