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CommArts honors Invisible Children, USHMM

By ShelteringTree | Published April 2, 2010

Among the 39 winners of Communications Arts 16th Annual Interactive Competition are two initiatives to help end genocide and crimes against humanity: Invisible Children – The Rescue: Experimental category United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) From Memory in Action: Eyewitness Interactive Table, with interaction director/project design and development by Potion of New York, N.Y.: Info […]

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Survivors look on as House panel calls it genocide

By ShelteringTree | Published March 4, 2010

Overcoming an 11th hour request by the Obama administration to delay the vote, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly decided, 23-22, to approve a resolution that officially recognizes the Armenian genocide. Los Angeles Times’ Richard Simon reports that three survivors – ages 97, 98 and 105 – were present to support the measure. Simon […]

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Remembering Dr. Alison Des Forges (1942-2009)

By ShelteringTree | Published February 14, 2010

Feb. 12 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Dr. Alison Des Forges, senior advisor to the Africa division of Human Rights Watch for nearly 20 years. Dr. Des Forges devoted her life to the people of Rwanda and the Great Lakes region of Africa, and was widely considered a leading expert on the 1994 […]

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