Tag: human
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Neal and Mary Taylor to receive CWU Human Rights Award
The La Crosse Area Church Women United movement will host its annual Human Rights Celebration from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 12, at the Church of Jesus Christ of … Read Full Article
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Hmong Institute Open House
media release: On June 29, 2021, the National Education Association (NEA) named the Hmong Institute the winner of the Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award at the 2021 NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards. Read Full Article
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Fitchburg extends police chief survey deadline to July 21
The City of Fitchburg’s police chief survey will be open for responses until July 21, after the Police and Fire Commission extended it from its original two-week period. City human resources director … Read Full Article: article source
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Fall 2021 Announcements: Poetry
With a keen eye on the paradoxes of human experience, these titles find new ways to celebrate resilience and the innumerable joys of the everyday. Read Full Article
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10 Years After Starring in ‘Gran Torino’, I See Today’s Anti-Asian Racism for What it Really Is
I starred opposite Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino” playing the lead Hmong role in a tale of two people transcending their differences to form an unlikely human bond. It was a historic cinematic moment … Read Full Article
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The Covid-19 era’s anti-Asian racism isn’t new. I learned this the hard way. – Jaweb
I starred opposite Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino” playing the lead Hmong role in a tale of two people transcending their differences to form an unlikely human bond. It was a historic cinematic moment … Read Full Article
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Thai King says he feels ‘sad’ on some days just like ‘other human beings’
Thai King Maha Vajralongkorn has said that he is “just like other human beings”, and that there are days when he feels sad or despondent, the Bangkok Post reported. He made the remarks to a student on … Read Full Article
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Review: ‘Somewhere in the Unknown World,’ by Kao Kalia Yang
American memoirist and St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s collection “Somewhere in the Unknown World” are haunting and vivid. Here, like innocent human detritus of the world’s political storms, the … Read Full Article
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Therapist and advocate True Thao focuses on the mental health of Minnesota’s refugee communities
When the Minnesota Department of Human Services emailed True Thao to tell him he’d been chosen to receive an Outstanding Refugee Award, he first thought it was some kind of a scam. “I wasn’t sure … Read Full Article
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Why Are Peaceful Human Rights Activists Still Behind Bars in Vietnam?
Those facing abuses include Hoa Hao Buddhists, such as Truyen, Khmer Krom Buddhists, Hmong and Montagnards Christians, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, and Falun Gong, Cao Dai, An Dan Dai … Read Full Article
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Anti-Asian Immigration Rhetoric Is Nothing New
Since well before the Vietnam War, Southeast Asian migrants have faced racism, targeted immigration enforcement, and denial of their basic human rights. Read Full Article
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Five myths about fear
Tags: humanFear is a universal human experience. In evolutionary terms, it’s one of our oldest emotions, built on a framework of near-automatic responses – startle, withdraw, defend – that even some of the … Read Full Article
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The wonderful and varied ways mothers carry their babies around the world
Tags: humanTo provide safety, facilitate feeding, and promote mutual bonding, human infants, who are born helpless and defenseless, are traditionally in contact with their mothers day and night. But mothers also … Read Full Article
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Three NE Wisconsin health departments announce first coronavirus community-wide testing site
Brown County Public Health and Human Services, De Pere Health Department, and the Oneida Nation Health Department have announced on May 3 that they will open the … Read Full Article
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Debi Niebuhr: We are in this together
Tags: humanWhile it seems like it is human nature to blame someone when we are experiencing uncertainty, fear and pain, it really doesn’t serve us very well to find solutions or … Read Full Article
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Asian-Americans in Minnesota face insults, hostility during virus outbreak
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says it has started to hear about bias incidents targeting Asian-Americans. Read Full Article
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Human Rights Council concludes its general debate on human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Other issues raised included serious attacks on social rights and the worsening situation of indigenous peoples in Brazil, the situation of the Hmong people in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the … Read Full Article