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Blog: Human Rights, Anything But Academic

Posted November 19th, 2008 by Philippe Duhamel

"They were born to be slaves and serve White People. Bout time for them to start doing it again."

"No nigger will ever rule the WHITE House".

White-supremacist graffitis were found at Colgate University on the same day the United States elected its first African American president. It's been less than a week, and I am standing in front of an overflowing chapel on this all-American "Hidden Ivy" campus, with over a thousand people who have congregated here to denounce the symbols of a deep, ongoing strand of racism. The midday sun is as dim as the air is crisp, but the chill comes from elsewhere: the bigoted scribbles were part of hundreds of race threats and crimes committed around the same time across the US.

notebook: Engaging Key Stakeholders: Ensuring the right to HIV/AIDS education and health care services

In this notebook, we learn about how the development agency CARE-Bangladesh involved key stakeholders, particularly a transport workers’ union, in the task of HIV/AIDS prevention in Bangladesh. This story provides important insights into engaging key stakeholders in advocacy work that is socially acceptable and relevant to the lives and experience of target communities.

notebook: Educating the Next Generation: Incorporating Human Rights Education in the Public School System

In this notebook we learn about an Albanian organization that seized an opportunity to integrate human rights into the public education system. The Albanian Center for Human Rights worked with the new democratic government in the post- communist transition period and successfully introduced human rights education into the public curriculum. This was an effort to prepare Albanians for their transition to democracy.