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80 years: The Flight and Rescue of the Danish Jews 1943 - 2023
In 2023, it will be 80 years since the flight and rescue of the Danish Jews. Humanity in Action marks this through a number of events in September and October. The memory is our shared responsibility and our only way to prevent repetition.
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Four Months, Four Million Light Years: Picnic Brunch and Film Screening
Senior Fellow Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh invites you to a shamanic healing journey: Four Months, Four Million Light Years. On September 6, 2020, at 11:00am in Berlin.
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The Global Resilience: COVID-19 Stories Project
Participate and share this year’s fellow Mariam Hassoun’s Action Project!
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Fellow Baratunde Thurston releases new podcast: How to Citizen with Baratunde
In this podcast, Fellow Baratunde Thurston guides listeners on a reimagining of the idea of citizenship and how individuals can get involved in solving the problems they witness every day.
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Senior Fellow named on National Security & Foreign Policy LGBTQIA+ Out Leadership List 2020
Senior Fellow Kyle Rohrich was selected by Out in National Security and New America as one of 40 LGBTQIA+ experts in U.S. national security and foreign policy to be honored in this year's National Security & Foreign Policy LGBTQIA+ Out Leadership List.
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Senior Fellow's work on black fatherhood honored by The New Press for Juneteenth
Senior Fellow Aasha Abdill's book "Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood" was highlighted by The New Press, a public-interest publisher, in celebration of Juneteenth.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons response to the coronavirus has been disastrous and deadly
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Natalie Catherine Chwalisz recently published an opinion piece in the Washington Post which focuses on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' management of Covid-19. In the piece, Natalie argues that its consequences have been deadly for incarcerated citizens and shares why this matters, particularly for DC residents.
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An obstetrics-gynecology resident’s perspective on Black Lives Matter
"(...) In 2020, I am a health care provider immersed within a system of racial bias and social injustice. The need for Black doctors has been a long touted issue within the medical community without any immediate solution on the horizon. Like many non-Black physicians, I am trying to figure out my role in the Black Lives Matter movement (...)."
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2020 HIA Warsaw Fellows raise awareness and knowledge of English-speaking Wikipedia users
2020 HIA Warsaw Fellows have learnt how to raise awareness and knowledge of English-speaking Wikipedia users by creating new articles on minority groups’ intervention, and informing on ‘the event that people may not otherwise ever learn about’ as one of Fellows Lamisa Mustafa pointed out.