Weekly News Brief: 1/12/2017
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on Yemen, Syria, and Burma. Though violence and atrocious living conditions… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on Yemen, Syria, and Burma. Though violence and atrocious living conditions… Read more…
Almost a year ago, the Ethiopian government announced the Addis Ababa Master Plan, which proposed an expansion of Ethiopia’s capital into surrounding farms within the Oromia region. The Oromo, who… Read more…
A few weeks ago, I listened to James Waller, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide studies at Keene State College, recount a talk he had with a man who had… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief focuses on Iraq, Burma, and Yemen. Fighting to gain power over… Read more…
After President Pierre Nkurunziza declared his decision to run for a third term in office in April of 2015, violence in Burundi exploded. The Constitution of Burundi clearly… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief focuses on the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo,… Read more…
Although I have never had a child of my own, I have watched someone I love lose their child. The cavern of pain created by that death often seems insurmountable…. Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief focuses on Syria, Turkey, Yemen, and Ethiopia. In Syria, airstrikes… Read more…
Giulia Duch Clerici is a junior Political Science/International Relations and Economics major at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. This summer, she investigated refugee relief and integration initiatives in Europe,… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by the STAND Education Task Force. Thanks also go to STAND Education Coordinator Bethany Vance, Policy Coordinator Tim Hirschel-Burns, and Communications Coordinator Elisabeth… Read more…