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Engineers Without Borders President Vittoria Sama, left, Vice President Chaney Finkeldei, center, and International Projects and Fundraising Chair Urvi Chakravarthy, right. EWB is crowdfunding to provide clean drinking water for a displaced community in Kenya. COURTESY OF VITTORIA SAMA, CHANEY FINKELDEI AND URVI CHAKRAVARTHY

BU engineering club to raise money for clean water project in Kenya

Brenda Gonzalez March 29, 2024
Since 2018, Engineers Without Borders, EWB, has partnered with the Ogiek people of Tinet, Kenya on a mission to provide clean and accessible drinking water. This year, EBW’s aims to raise around $8,000 for travel costs, and $20,000 to implement the borehole project in Tinet this summer.
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FIFA is fun, but human rights violations aren’t | Latest With Lin

Michael Lin November 7, 2022
What happens when the very stadiums fans are sitting in have been built off of what some human rights watch groups have called modern slavery?
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a panel Tuesday to encourage students to incorporate human rights into their career paths. COLE SCHONEMAN/ DFP FILE

Int’l relations professionals share how to break into human rights work

Caroline Bowden November 12, 2020

As public health, migration and climate crises persist around the globe, younger generations, including current college students, will soon take on the burden of these issues. A panel of experts...

Elena Noureddine speaks during “Human Rights One Year Into the Trump Administration.” The event was hosted by Amnesty International at Boston University. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Amnesty International panel reflects on human rights under Trump

Taylor Kocher April 4, 2018

With bans on everything from bathroom choice to international travel, executive orders issued by the Trump administration have affected numerous facets of daily life in America for some people. Saturday,...

Boston community gathers to reflect on travel ban

Audrey Tran January 23, 2018

Marking one year since President Donald Trump instilled his travel ban, humanitarian organizations joined forces on Monday to hold a panel at District Hall as a symbol of solidarity with refugees suffering...

DAMIANO: Qatar: Where atrocities have no consequences

David Damiano October 9, 2017

The tiny peninsular state of Qatar has the great fortune of having vast oil resources. Despite its minuteness, Qatar has the third largest natural gas and oil reserves worldwide, allowing it to become...

An exhibit demonstrates the value of human rights at Amnesty International’s Northeast Regional Conference on Saturday. PHOTO BY KANKANIT WIRIYASAJJA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Amnesty International conference inspires attendees

Haley Fritz November 13, 2016

Hundreds of Amnesty International volunteers and activists traveled from all over the country Boston last weekend for the organization’s Northeast Regional Conference, which took place in Cambridge...

YANK-JACOBS: Turkey and European Union deal puts politics before refugees

YANK-JACOBS: Turkey and European Union deal puts politics before refugees

Kobe Yank-Jacobs March 22, 2016

In 2015, 850,000 Syrian refugees gained access to Greece, and thereby Europe, via the Aegean Sea, according to The Guardian. Under immense political pressure to quell the refugee flow, European Union leaders...

EDITORIAL: South Korean holographic protest carries less impact

EDITORIAL: South Korean holographic protest carries less impact

Editors February 25, 2016

The hologram craze first hit with Michael Jackson, then Whitney Houston and now political protesters. The second-ever holographic protest was held Wednesday in South Korea, NPR reported. Amnesty Korea...

Amnesty International members and human rights activists gathered in the George Sherman Union Saturday for the Amnesty International USA 2015 Northeast Regional Conference, titled "From Moment to Movement." PHOTO BY JAKE FRIEDLAND/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Community writes letters at BU-hosted Amnesty International conference

Sekar Krisnauli November 9, 2015

Approximately 100 people gathered at a letter-writing social hosted by Amnesty International’s Boston leadership and Boston University’s Amnesty chapter Friday evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel,...

The Boston University chapter of Amnesty International, a nonprofit that aims to protect human rights, has been denied official student organization status by BU's Student Activities Office. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Years later, SAO denies Amnesty International student group application

Weihua Li October 15, 2015

Boston University’s Student Activities Office denied the request of BU’s Amnesty International chapter to reinstate itself as an official student group, rejecting its application on Oct. 8 in an...

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