Tag Archives: Harvard Law School

Factbox: U.S. President Barack Obama

November 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

(Reuters) – As the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, 51, signed into law a revamp of the national healthcare system and authorized the raid that killed Osama bin Laden but struggled to revive the economy and create … read more »

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Fact check: Who is Mitt Romney?

October 22, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Who is Mitt Romney? Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election . He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Mitt … read more »

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The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell

March 11, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By John Perazzo By now, you may already have seen the 1991 video footage of Barack Obama, who was then a 30-year-old student at Harvard Law School, speaking in glowing terms about Harvard professor Derrick Bell, whom Obama described as … read more »

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Ethiopia: The Anuak’s Forgotten Genocide

December 13, 2010 by benim

Anuak Refugees (photo by Doug McGill) A Conversation With Obang Metho[1] Note: A report by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program on the Anuak concluded[2]:”From December 2004 to at least January 2006, the ENDF (Ethiopian National Defense Forces) attacked … read more »

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Will Canada Choose Mining over Indigenous Rights?

October 28, 2010 by benim

Can you put a price on an indigenous community’s culture? Is a company’s bottom line worth more than a traditional way of life? Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government will soon weigh in on these human rights questions. The Canadian … read more »

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A Tanzanian and Guantánamo

October 19, 2010 by benim

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian accused of playing a role in Al Qaeda’s bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998. He is the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in an American civilian … read more »

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