by Graduate House Admin | Dec 10, 2021
Human Rights Day marks the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or...
by Graduate House Admin | Nov 16, 2021
The 1995-adopted Declaration of Principles on Tolerance explains tolerance as respect and appreciation of the variety of the world’s cultures, forms of expression and ways of being human. Qualifying tolerance not just as a moral duty, the Declaration states...
by Kerry Bennett | Aug 23, 2021
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition marks the date of a 1791 uprising in Santo Domingo (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) that played a crucial role in the abolition of the 16th to 19th century transatlantic slave trade. The...
by Kerry Bennett | Apr 7, 2021
The Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was over three months in 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War and resulted in 500,000 to 600,000 Tutsi deaths. Genocidal killings began the day after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana with organised...