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Gender

Meet Sandra Moran: Guatemala’s First Openly Lesbian Congresswoman

Sandra Moran, 55, was elected to Congress as its first openly gay member in the September 2015 general election...

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Hollywood

The Problem of Diversity in Hollywood

Despite America, Hollywood, Kevin Tsujihara, Warner Bros. Entertainment, African Americans, Hollywood Studios, USC, Latina, Black Women, Stacy L. Smith, USC Annenberg Schoo...

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Human Rights

Blood in the Rakhine

The United Nations recognizes every individual, by virtue of birth, to have an equal right to dignity, and consider this the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the...

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Festivals

'Nowhere To Hide' In Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017

At no point during Zaradasht Ahmed’s blistering documentary Nowhere to Hide does anybody express regret for the departure of American soldiers from Iraq. That remains...

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Alternative Entertainment

Artist Is Creating A Parthenon Made Of 100,000 Banned Books

With the rise of Far Right candidates in Europe and in America, along with creeping dictatorship in Turkey and authoritarianism in the Philippines, the idea of democracy an...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Allegiant

Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, AnselElgort, Zoë Kravitz, Maggie Q, Ray Stevenson, Daniel Dae Kim, Bill Skarsgård, Octavia Spence...

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Alternative Entertainment

18th San Francisco Independent Film Festival Preview

In human terms, this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) has just reached voting age. Politics may be the subjects o...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Sustainable Development

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

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