Susan Akram, director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Boston University School of Law, said she saw generational trauma firsthand. Akram started teaching at BU in 1993, where she now supervises students representing international non-governmental organizations at the International Human Rights Clinic, IHRC.
From fears of losing their student visas over the summer to waking up in the middle of the night for classes halfway across the world, international students at BU have faced many challenges over the past few months.
For every viral image of overflowing passengers crossing an ocean or families packed into tents in a refugee camp, there are millions more people, unphotographed, experiencing the same suffering.
For Ibrahim Rashid, the executive action banning people from predominantly Muslim countries was personal. But when he helped organize a protest at Boston University, he had no idea that more than 250...
“You’re always so laid back about things,” my mom pouts as my brother kicks his feet back and continues glaring at the TV screen. “You’re 25 years old, when will you become more responsible?”
This...
A man whose legs are two-by-fours, a dog whose ears are paper and a picture of a donkey cart carrying an I-beam next to the freeway — all of these works of art were created by Huma Bhabha, a Pakistani...
To those in the West, Malala Yousafzai is the perfect face for the equal rights movements in the Middle East. Her story and her activism garnered international attention, especially once the Taliban ambushed...
Normally I pay about as much attention to the Nobel Prizes as I do to Miley Cyrus’s fashion advice. However, this time around, I had no choice but to make an exception. A Friday press release from the...
