human rights

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Celia is a master's candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she studies business and data reporting, and an alumna of Barnard College, where she studied anthropology and human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, UN human rights chief Volker Türk announced on Wednesday that he was sending a team of human rights investigators to Lebanon, at the request of the Lebanese government.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Goldman didn’t, arguing the U.S. already had legislation to condition arms sales on respect for human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The pair's friendship began in 1996 when they were both barristers at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in human rights.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander