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Rohingya refugee finds home in Chicago

February 8, 2018

A Rohingya refugee, Hasan Korimullah came to Chicago three years ago. After losing his family and fleeing from his home country, Hasan found a new home with his adopted family in a house of 17 in West...

Boyd: Recognize Suu Kyi’s culpability in Rohingya genocide

October 3, 2017

The world is witnessing a case of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. The minority Rohingya Muslim population in Rakhine State are being systematically killed, terrorized and driven from their homes. Over 500,000...

Schwartz: In light of Trump’s immigration ban, we must take a lesson from the Holocaust

January 29, 2017

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has two pretty straightforward objectives: to remember the victims of the Nazis and to educate ourselves with the intention of preventing genocides from happening...

Durbin seeks support from Northwestern law students for new human rights bill

April 8, 2015

CHICAGO — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday he would introduce to Congress a law that would allow the U.S. government to prosecute people who commit international crimes against humanity — and...

Darfur refugee Guy Josif speaks at Northwestern

May 27, 2014

Guy Josif doesn’t know exactly how old he is, but he said he was probably 10 or 11 years old when a nomadic Arab militia attacked his village in Darfur, Sudan. The Fiedler Hillel Center, Challah...

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