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#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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On Thursday, October 29 at 4 p.m. EDT, join the second event in the What Justice Looks Like series for a conversation with activists from Black youth-led movements from the US and Latin America, leading the struggle against racial injustice, from police violence to structural racism and disparate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized and low-income communities. Speakers include: Ana Belique, Reconocido Movement (Santo Domingo) Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural…

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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

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Please join us on Human Rights Day for "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color," a special event featuring Andrea J. Ritchie. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie's talk will center the experiences of Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color, in the context of the…

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Work-In-Progress Series: Considerations in Prioritizing Limited COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies

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On Monday, January 11, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress Series. During this event, Professor Marc Lipsitch will present “Considerations in Prioritizing Limited COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies.” This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. To register and receive Zoom webinar details, please contact Sam Peisch at speisch@hsph.harvard.edu. Professor Lipsitch is a Professor of…

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The State of Human Rights: 2020 Reflections and Lessons Learned

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Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Aj-Rp7K6zk&feature=youtu.be   Event Details Examining the unprecedented events that unfolded in 2020, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University invites you to join this special event. A keynote speech will be presented by Director of the FXB Center Dr. Mary T. Bassett, followed by discussion with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng. Discussion topics will focus on: How the COVID-19 pandemic deepened inequities for vulnerable…

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Leveraging the Arts for a Healthier & Just America

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Motivated by the need to help the nation charter a pathway for an American recovery, DrPH Candidate and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Fellow Amanda Taffy is working on a thesis entitled, The Role of the Arts During COVID-19: Gendered Expressions of Resilience & Empowerment. With the help of faculty from the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…

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Women, Gender, and Health Presents: Black Femmes in the Fight for Food Justice

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Join the Women, Gender, and Health Interdisciplinary Concentration as they welcome Ali Anderson, MPH and Lyric Zhané from Feed Black Futures and Ashley Gripper, MPH from Land Based Jawns to discuss Black food and land sovereignty, community wellbeing, and collective liberation. These conversation partners will explore the role that mutual aid has played in supporting communities at the intersections of state-sanctioned violence, food apartheid, and food insecurity in the context…

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International Women’s Day 2021

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On Monday, March 8, the Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health (WGH) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will host its annual International Women's Day event. This year's theme is "In A Time of COVID-19: The Ongoing Fight for Health Justice." Dr. Nancy Krieger, Chair of WGH, will provide a brief summary of the history of the radical origins of International Women’s Day. Additional speakers include:…

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The Social, Cultural, and Political Legacy of the 1971 World Roma Congress

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The Social, Cultural, and Political Legacy of the 1971 World Roma Congress event-series is organized by the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Boston); the Romani Studies Program, Central European University (Budapest/ Vienna); and the Department of Romani Studies, Södertörn University (Stockholm). Each year, for more than two decades, on April 8, Romani people across the world celebrate International Roma Day. Some have turned…

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Work-In-Progress Series: Human Rights Issues of Indigenous People in Northeast India

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On Tuesday, April 13, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress Series. During this event, Carr Center Fellow Binalakshmi Nepram will present “Human Rights Issues of Indigenous People in Northeast India.” This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. To register and receive Zoom webinar details, please contact Jasmine Young at jasmine_young@hsph.harvard.edu.…

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Cultivating Joy and Collective Restoration: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Claiming Pleasure and Liberation.

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Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities around the world have long engaged in cultivating individual and collective pleasure, healing, and liberation, both as resilience mechanisms in the face of oppression and as celebrations in their own right. In recent times, with the ubiquity of traumatic occurrences such as the COVID-19 pandemic, state-sanctioned violence, and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, living under negligent systems has felt increasingly harrowing and inescapable.…

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