“On Her Shoulders” Film Screening

In honor of 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) invite you to a film screening of “On Her Shoulders” which explores the activism of 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad. The film follows the life and activism of Nadia Murad who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, just after…

Loving Children by Leaving Them: The Sri Lankan Mother’s Dilemma

By Elizabeth H. Shlala One of the primary reasons that Sri Lankan women migrate is motherhood. 1.2 million Sri Lankans work abroad; 300,000 of them migrate as domestic workers to Saudi Arabia alone. In 2012 86% of all female migrant workers went abroad to be domestic workers or “housemaids.” 97% of Sri Lankan domestic workers migrated to the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,  Saudi Arabia,…