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
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
UN Women, the UN organisation that upholds women's human rights, has called it a "global crisis", where prosecutions against the issue are rare and survivors are often re-traumatised when they do attempt to seek help.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
In October 2025, Seoul apologised for the first time for state-sanctioned malpractices, saying "unjust human rights violations" were committed.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
As boats arrived in Saint Domingue from France, slaves learned that a revolution was going on in the name of human rights.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
