We are wishing you and your families well in this extraordinary time of uncertainty.
This week we hope to hear how things are going for you as we continue to hold strong our small but mighty HRHP community: please join us for another HRHP coffee hour this Thursday, 4/9 (details below).
As ever, if there is anything we can do to support you as the semester continues forward, please know our channels are open.
Grab a cup of coffee (or tea) and hop on Zoom to hangout with the Concentration! We'll be using this time to check in and provide a space to reconnect with fellow HRHPers.
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Like a book club, but better! Join SIPA Diversity Committee faculty and students as we lead critical conversations about articles, videos and podcasts that we are engaging with while in isolation. First, participants read/listen/view the material and then they join a facilitated critical conversation with faculty and peers.
For Professor Aidi's conversation on The Geo-Politics of Malcolm X, please read/watch the following
- https://vimeo.com/394471323
- https://sapelosquare.com/2020/03/05/interview-malcolm-x-and-the-sudanese/
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-music-of-malcolm-x
The world over, transgender people and others belonging to sexual and gender minority groups are disproportionately at risk of violence and discrimination. Humanitarian crises like conflict, disasters and mass migration tend to amplify the vulnerabilities that transgender people are made to endure. Yet they are often excluded from humanitarian assistance because of their identities – the very characteristic for which they are victimized in the first place.
In a new blog and audio recording marking the International Day of Transgender Visibility, Sandra Smiley considers why the unique needs of transgender people have previously been neglected in humanitarian crises – and what must be done to address this oversight.
Write Letters to Elderly Incarcerated People
Our members at Aging People in Prisons Human Rights Campaign (APP-HRC) are launching their first Virtual Letter Writing Night this Thursday at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET. The virtual event will take place every Thursday during the month of April. Folks from around the country will gather on Zoom to write letters of solidarity to elderly people in prisons who are seeking release. If you are interested in joining the event this week, please email dcapphrc@gmail.com for the conference call-in details. You can use the same email address to submit the name of an elderly person you know who is seeking release to have their name included for this week’s letter writing.
Our next member call is scheduled for Thursday, April 9 at 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET. Register here. April’s member call will be centered on our members’ responses to COVID-19 including challenges, initiatives, and calls to action or for support. Many of our members are part of particularly vulnerable communities including women of color, sex workers, people in prisons or detention centers, people experiencing homelessness, people with preexisting medical conditions, poor people, and others. If you are part of or work with a community particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and would like to share about your experiences facing the pandemic, please email Whitney Yang to be included on the agenda of our next member call wyang@ushrnetwork.org.
USHRN April Member Call: Grassroots Responses to COVID-19
Date: Thursday, April 9, 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET Location: Conference call. Register here.
Our next member call is scheduled for Thursday, April 9 at 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET. April’s member call will be centered on our members’ responses to COVID-19 including challenges, initiatives, and calls to action or for support. Many of our members are part of particularly vulnerable communities including women of color, sex workers, people in prisons or detention centers, people experiencing homelessness, people with preexisting medical conditions, poor people, and others. If you are part of or work with a community particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and would like to share about your experiences facing the pandemic, please email USHRN Chief of Strategy and Programming Whitney Yang (wyang@ushrnetwork.org) to be included on the agenda of our next member call. Register here.
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Professor Elazar Bakan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
