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August 30th is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Enforced disappearances are a result of conflicts or periods of repression in at least 85 countries around the world and have been frequently used as a strategy in complex situations of internal conflict, especially as a means of political repression of opponents.

Fellow Highlight
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

AHDA alumnus (2014) Oriol Lopez Badell comments for The Guardian and Vilaweb on colonialism and slavery in Barcelona, Spain. Oriol López-Badell is a historian at the European Observatory on Memories at the University of Barcelona.

To read The Guardian article, "Columbus statue will stay, but slavery tour aims to address Barcelona’s past," please click here. 

AHDA alumna publishes "Museums, Memory and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka" 
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

AHDA alumna Hasini Haputhanthri's publication "Museums, Memory and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka" is now available in Academia. Click here to download and read. 

Fellow Highlight
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

An article by AHDA alumna '19, Evelyn Dissanayake, titled "Enforced Disappearance and Women’s Peace and Security in Sri Lanka"  was published in the blog by the Kroc School of Peace Studies (University of San Diego). Click here to read it. 

AHDA alumna’s project advancing civil rights in the US
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Select AHDA program fellows have been working on projects advancing civil rights movements, including in the U.S. starting some years back. Please see a highlight of AHDA alumna Tammi Sharpe (2013), who has been working on a project “Oral History and the Civil Rights Movement.”

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