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The Grotesque Savagery of Turkey's Mercenaries
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

By David L. Phillips

A Kurdish woman fled Turkish troops and their Islamist mercenaries when Turkey launched an unprovoked attack on the City of Afrin, a Kurdish community in northern Syria, on Jan. 20, 2018. The woman was running hand-in-hand with her young daughter when a missile obliterated the girl. The mother held onto her arm — all that was left of her child.

International Symposium Indigenous Peoples and Borders: Decolonization, Contestation, Trans-border Practices
Documents for the International Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and Borders: Decolonization, Contestation, Trans-Border Practices
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

See below for links to relevant documents for the International Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and Borders: Decolonization, Contestation, Trans-Border Practices taking place on November 11-12 2019.

Indigenous Peoples and Borders Symposium Livestream Information
Friday, November 8, 2019

Indigenous Peoples and Borders Symposium at Columbia 11-12 November will be live streamed here.

NPR WorldAffairs new podcast episode: "The Crisis in Syria: A Geopolitical Reshuffling of Power"
David L. Phillips interviewed on WorldAffairs
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria has had grave repercussions for the security and stability of the entire region. The Turkish military has invaded northern Syria, killing dozens of Kurdish civilians and forcing over 200,000 Kurds to flee. In the absence of US troops, Russian and Syrian troops have rushed in to fill the power vacuum. Meanwhile, hundreds of ISIS fighters have escaped detention.

1994 Advocate Samuel Kofi Woods II of Liberia Visits HRAP
Thursday, October 31, 2019

1994 Advocate Samuel Kofi Woods II of Liberia took time out of his trip to the USA to meet participants in the 2019 HRAP. He spoke with the advocates about his journey as a human rights advocate, including his unrelenting focus on the need to maintain his integrity in all that he does. Woods is a Liberian journalist, academic, activist, and politician. He began his activism as the student president of his university and a leader of the national student organization in 1986.

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