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8 posts tagged "Center for Civil and Human Rights"

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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee discusses experience, forgiveness

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Monday, January 29, 2018

On Nov. 20, 2001, in the early days of the United States’ “War on Terror,” Mohamedou Ould Slahi drove himself to the national police headquarters in Nouakchott, Mauritania — his home country — for voluntary questioning in relation to recent terrorist activity in North America due to a cousin’s relationship with Osama Bin Laden and

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Center to host video conference with former Guantanamo Bay prisoner

Selena Ponio | Friday, January 26, 2018

Members of the Notre Dame community will explore themes of torture, terrorism and identity Sunday at 4 p.m. as part of an event led by the Center for Civil and Human Rights. Christine Cervenak, associate director for the center, said this event is a collaboration of several groups on campus including the Film, Theatre and

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Don’t stand with the oppressor

Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 15, 2016

On April 8, Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) hosted George Deek, a representative of Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Deek’s narrative denied Israel’s relentless attempts to rebut the rights of the Palestinians, and it discredited the Palestinian struggle for justice and equality. During his talk, he presented Israel as a bastion of diversity

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Panel examines voting rights

Jenna Wilson | Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The Center for Civil and Human Rights sponsored the panel discussion “The Right to Vote: Shaping an American Electorate” on Monday afternoon. Moderated by David Campbell, chair of the department of political science, the discussion centered on the accessibility of the ballot in current American culture, as well as the shaping of the electorate in

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Display explores global impact of the Holocaust

Eddie Damstra | Tuesday, September 29, 2015

For the next three weeks, students and faculty walking through the Great Hall in O’Shaughnessy Hall will be able to view an exhibition entitled “Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context.” Notre Dame will be hosting lectures, gallery talks and a film series in coordination with the exhibit, and this collaborative effort is entitled “Remembrance:

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Speak Up! challenge promotes end to religious persecution

Jenna Wilson | Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The Speak Up! campaign is challenging Notre Dame students to help end religious persecution. The project, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Center for Civil and Human Rights, calls for students to “create effective and creative communication tools that will raise awareness and call for solidarity with one or more religious community that

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Panel discusses role of torture in CIA interrogation tactics

Matthew McKenna | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights hosted a discussion panel Tuesday titled, “Tortured Nation: Morality, Security, and Torture,” examining the moral and legal implications of a recent report on detention and interrogation of terror suspects from the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights and panel moderator Daniel

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ND-Georgetown project receives $1.1 million grant

Gabriela Malespin | Sunday, September 7, 2014

Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights received a $1.1 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust last month to conduct research on Christian persecution around the world. The project, titled  “Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christian Communities Respond to Repression,” is a joint project with Georgetown University and includes a team of more than fifteen

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“Other bishops think that, because he’s a conscientious Catholic whose faith is obviously important to him, we should strike a more positive tone, particularly at the outset of his presidency. After all, in many ways Biden’s positions are more in line with Catholic teaching than Trump’s, particularly when it comes to migrants, refugees, climate issues, poverty and inequality,” Dowd continued. 

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🗳 Not sure who to vote for in Wednesday’s stu 🗳 Not sure who to vote for in Wednesday’s student body presidential elections? 

Meet the candidates and the platforms they are running on below. 

Candidates Allan Njomo and Matthew Bisner plan to:
📚Expand sexual education materials.
💵Subsidize summer classes for low-income students.
📝Alter the non-discrimination clause to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
🏳️‍🌈Establish a Pride Fest.

Candidates Max Siegel and Zachary Holland plan to:
💵Increase club funding through outside grants.
🔈Amplify Speak4ND.
💲Raise student job wages.
🗣Promote sexual assault and racially-charged reporting.
🟢Expand GreeNDot training to the outside community.

Candidates Mabry Webb and Jacob Calpey plan to:
👥Create a Sexual Assault Response task force.
💵Increase funding for the UCC and subsidize off-campus referrals.
♿Make campus buildings more disability accessible.
🩺Increase awareness of STI testing.
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