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Eliminating Racial Discrimination: The Need for Vigilance ~ GIAZILO

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Mar 20, 2009. Eliminating Racial Discrimination: The Need for Vigilance. PUBLISHED ON: 3/20/2009 11:55:00 PM. Eliminating Racial Discrimination: The Need for Vigilance. Remarks at the Forum Marking the United Nations Designated “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” Organized by the Hamilton Police Services, Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, Hamilton, 19 March 2009. It asserts that “any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally c...

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Peace on Earth: Lessons from the Christmas Truce of 1914 ~ GIAZILO

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Dec 19, 2014. Peace on Earth: Lessons from the Christmas Truce of 1914. PUBLISHED ON: 12/19/2014 11:22:00 AM. IN: war and peace. This Christmas marks the centenary of a remarkable event in peacemaking. As a year defined by global conflicts and social upheavals draws to a close, the holiday season provides another opportunity to reflect on the proclamation “peace on earth and goodwill to all.”. The Christmas truce of 1914 holds 3 important lessons for peacemaking in our world today. Bonny Ibhawoh is a pro...

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Guy Fawkes: The Face of Anonymity and Defiance ~ GIAZILO

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Nov 9, 2011. Guy Fawkes: The Face of Anonymity and Defiance. PUBLISHED ON: 11/09/2011 08:37:00 PM. IN: arts and culture. I have always wondered what the real story is behind the ubiquitous “V for Vendetta” mask that has become synonymous with the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US and around the world. The mask has come to represent the anonymity of an amorphous and leaderless grassroots movement. Apparently there is a fascinating history behind the mask. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am teach...

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June 2015 ~ GIAZILO

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Jun 9, 2015. After 6 years of deliberations, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week released its long-awaited report. The TRC was established following the settlement arising from the abuses by state agents against indigenous people in the residential school system. The polarized reactions that have greeted the Canadian TRC are strikingly similar to the reactions that followed the release of the South African TRC Report a decade ago. Scholars of South Africa often question whether...

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Seasons Greetings and Best wishes for just and peaceful 2012 ~ GIAZILO

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Dec 22, 2011. Seasons Greetings and Best wishes for just and peaceful 2012. PUBLISHED ON: 12/22/2011 04:53:00 PM. Bonny Ibhawoh is a professor of History and Global Human Rights at McMaster University. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Serbia Apologizes for Srebrenica massacre. Too little, too late? Is this really about contrition for the atrocities of Srebrenica or more about Serbia’s quest to join the European . The Implications of Neo Colonialism and Neo Liberalism in Africa on the Refugee Question.

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John Humphrey: The man behind the UDHR ~ GIAZILO

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Aug 23, 2010. John Humphrey: The man behind the UDHR. PUBLISHED ON: 8/23/2010 06:00:00 PM. A bullied "one-armed youngster" drafted a world-changing document . A central figure in the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a Canadian. John Peters Humphrey, a professor of law at McGill University was instrumental in bringing human rights to international attention in the 20th century. Is doing much to draw attention to the extraordinary life and work of John Humphrey. I have always be...

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Egypt: The Ballot must be Sacrosanct ~ GIAZILO

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Jul 5, 2013. Egypt: The Ballot must be Sacrosanct. PUBLISHED ON: 7/05/2013 01:35:00 AM. The military intervention in Egypt and the ousting of the democratically elected Islamist regime has been hailed by some as a victory of a popular revolution. Amidst the euphoria, however, we must ponder the larger implication of this trend for the future of liberal democracy in the Middle East. As one commentator put it, the greatest danger is that the military coup will be interpreted by many political Islamists as ...

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What were our parents thinking? ~ GIAZILO

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Aug 6, 2014. What were our parents thinking? PUBLISHED ON: 8/06/2014 08:10:00 PM. This speaks volumes. Times have changed. A new generation of South Africans simply cannot wrap their minds around what would have motivated their parents to create or support the cruel and inhuman system of apartheid. "How could our parents have treated other human beings like this? I can imagine them asking themselves? 8220;What were our parents thinking? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Too little, too late? Eliminatin...

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Cultural Relativism and Human Rights: Are human rights only in the eyes of the beholder? ~ GIAZILO

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Jan 19, 2012. Cultural Relativism and Human Rights: Are human rights only in the eyes of the beholder? PUBLISHED ON: 1/19/2012 01:46:00 PM. I am teaching an undergraduate course on "Human Rights" this term and last week the topic was "Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism." As always, it was interesting to get the students' perspective on a debate that has long dominated human rights scholarship. 8221; Only 6 hands went up. “How many think that human rights are culturally relative? 8221; 40 hands went up?