human-rights
City Lawyers Set To Rally for Their Pakistani Counterparts
November 14, 2007
November 13, 2007
Lawyers from firms across the city will stop billing clients for half an hour today to rally in support of the lawyers and judges of Pakistan.
The rally, planned for 1 p.m. in front of the New York County Courthouse at 60 Centre...
U.S. Attorneys Rally in Support of Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
November 14, 2007
The steps of the New York County Courthouse in downtown Manhattan were a sea of black and white Tuesday as hundreds of New York City attorneys gathered in support of their counterparts in Pakistan, thousands of whom have been...
U.S. Attorneys Rally to Support Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
After writing a curtain raiser for The New York Sun of yesterday’s lawyers’ rally in downtown Manhattan, I attended the rally and ended up writing this piece about it for Jewishworldreview.com. As I am learning, the issues...
Attorneys of the World Unite
November 9, 2007
Just got word that on Tuesday, New York’s lawyers, organized by the New York City Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and New York County Law Association, in cooperation with law schools and human rights organizations,...
‘I Don’t Know What I Can Give This City, But I’ll Do My Best’
October 3, 2007
October 3rd 2007
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.
Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria – an art and framing store in...
Ahmadinejad: Defender of Gay Rights?
September 23, 2007
On Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with students and faculty at Columbia University. Pundits, students, and New Yorkers of all stripes are in an uproar that Ahmadinejad is...
Recruited To Die
June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo...
I Look at Medicine as an Instrument of Social Justice
May 3, 2007
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does it. At 44, Ozuah is physician in chief of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. He also is chairman of...
Helping Mexican Immigrants Find Dignity — and a Better Life
March 3, 2007
March 3, 2007
Joel Magallan
Former Brother Joel Magallan has headed the Association Tepeyac for 11 years.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is an icon of dignity,” says Joel Magallán, the head of the Asociación Tepeyac de New York,...
‘It Was Skin and Bones’: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz
January 17, 2007
January 17, 2007
When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.
Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of...