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Embrey Human Rights Program
Stories of courage in El Salvador
Eight SMU students, led by Perkins School of Theology Professor Harold J. Recinos and Embrey Human Rights Program Coordinator Sherry Aikman, are in El Salvador through Jan 16. The group is looking at human rights atrocities that have occurred in the Central American country during the last 40 years, including the El Mozote massacre, the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the Zona Rosa guerrilla attack, the rape and murder of three American nuns and a missionary, unlawful civilian killings by security forces, forced prostitution, child labor and more. Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights in El Salvador 2013
Tagged Central America, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, El Salvador, Embrey Human Rights Program
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Cruel Beauty
Eighteen professors, academic professionals, students and community members from SMU, Dallas and across Texas will be traveling through Poland Dec. 19-29 to study the Holocaust. Led by SMU Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin, the group will visit cities and death camps where, during World War II, some 4,375,000 people were murdered during the country’s Nazi, Germany, occupation. Professor Halperin also will lead six Texas professors serving as 2012 fellows for the Texas Project for Human Rights Education, and a member of SMU’s News & Communications team, to Berlin, Dec. 16-19, to explore the origins of Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Embrey Human Rights Program, Europe, Poland
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Learning the stories of victims and survivors
A group of 20 SMU students, faculty and staff are in Rwanda in August 2012 with SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program. The SMU group is sharing donated books and classroom and medical supplies with schools and orphanages. They also are visiting genocide sites and meeting with survivors. Continue reading
Remembrance
Seven members of SMU’s recently formed Student Leadership Initiative (SLI) are in Rwanda, Uganda and Johannesburg during May 2012. The students are researching human rights issues and empowerment solutions for three African countries recovering from decades of genocide, war, famine, disease and apartheid. Continue reading
Posted in Student Leadership Initiative, Africa
Tagged Africa, Embrey Human Rights Program, Rwanda, Student Leadership Initiative
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