At least 940,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. The number of people who have been wounded or have fallen ill as a result of the ...

The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 ...

CHRHS strives to fuse education and research to on-the-ground action by connecting students with experts through internships at top humanitarian and human rights organizations. Each year, qualified ...

Samuel Hall, a social enterprise dedicated to research in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has worked in Afghanistan since 2007 and Africa 2014, based in Kabul and Nairobi, to inform humanitarian ...

Over the 20-year period of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense paid various companies about $108 billion in contracts for work performed in the country, according to ...

This reading group will convene to discuss the work of Ailton Krenak, a Brazilian Indigenous ...

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Sharika Thiranagama's work has consistently explored how political mobilization and domestic life intersect, focusing on ...

Associate Director in the Crisis and Conflict Division of Human Rights Watch ...

Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members that have passed. These altars ...

Over the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented policies to promote gender equality, notably lifting the ban on women in combat roles in 2013 and opening all military jobs to women by 2016.