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Latest Blog Posts for A Change Is Coming: Travels and Human Rights
- Three Cups of Reality - Stories from the field: Iraqi human rights defenders, in their own wordsMarianne Elliott wrote a great piece - Three Cups of Humble Pie - on the fiasco stemming from Greg Mortenson's troubles surrounding the facts of his stories and the way in which his Central Asia Institute has been run. In her post she quotes Desiree...
- He Must Be Set FreeLast week I wrote about feeling powerless because my wife brought my son to the hospital while I was overseas. There was nothing I could do, and it’s much the same feeling I have now with the unknown fate of human rights defender and friend Abdulha...
- #FreeAbdulhadi. Now.on Apr 11, 2011 in Abdulhadi Al Khawaja human rights defendersI live in a world where someone who defends the rights of others gets abducted, dragged down a set of stairs, beaten to the point of losing consciousness, and then held in detention without access to a lawyer nor proper medical care. Add that to the...
- Useless to powerlesson Apr 8, 2011I began the week here in Senegal confident that I was making myself useless at my job. The organizing committee for the workshop – all former participants to our programs – have a handle on everything. The facilitation team – six facilitators a...
- You can give me the right answer about rights, right?The second day is over. As I left the workshop rooms, all the facilitators were still working away, preparing for Day 3. It was a busy day, from a visit by the Canadian ambassador and Senegal's Minister of human rights to an old friend. The latter wa...
- The mayo's sticking, or: human rights educators like the participatory approachThe first day’s over. I spent most of the day busying myself with the tedious but necessary work of writing daily plans for the facilitators. The real work was in the hands of the facilitators. The first day of any workshop sets the tone for the re...
- Stuck on You: On sexual harassment and those touchy-feely energizersIt just wouldn’t be a workshop without Lionel Richie. Endless Love came trickling out of the speakers almost hourly at the Hotel Ibis in Morocco when I stayed there back in 2008. By the end of the workshop I was going sufficiently batty, and yet fe...
- They are colleagues, not gazelleson Apr 2, 2011 in human rights SenegalSaturday nightI walked down to the beach with my three colleagues (all women). A man sitting on a chair nearby who looked like the sort of man who’s been working the beach tourist racket for years looked at me and said: “Monsieur vous avez trois...
- Top Questions People Ask Me about My Work (with Answers)My business cards - used primarily as bookmarks, I freely admit - indicate that I am a Senior Education Specialist for Equitas, a human rights education NGO. It's not quite as self-explanatory as "dentist" or "taxi driver," and as a result I get a fa...
- Travels Past: A Paul in Area 51 - a road trip on the extra-terrestrial highwayHuman rights get a gentle push aside for this post. In light of the upcoming alien movie Paul, I thought I'd recall my own travel experience to Area 51 all those years ago.May 1993. I had heard of Area 51 only through my friend JR. A top secret Air F...
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