Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Darfur Refugee in Pittsburgh

An excellent article by Sally Kalson from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette documented the plight of a Sudanese refugee from Darfur. The url is: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp06046-655482.stm
My students were not suprised by the article -- they have intimate knowlege about the plight of asylum seekers in the United States. You see, they are working on asylum cases of detainees housed in York County Prison. They are students at Franklin & Marshall College in my Gov430: Human Rights-Human Wrongs class.

War against Euphoria

  Hate Hope and Human Rights  At least that's what the addicts describe it as. In 2020 alone, an estimated 9.5 million Americans, just A...