human rights

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Celia is a master's candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she studies business and data reporting, and an alumna of Barnard College, where she studied anthropology and human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Goldman didn’t, arguing the U.S. already had legislation to condition arms sales on respect for human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The foundation of Narges Mohammadi, the jailed Iranian Nobel peace prize winner, praised Satrapi as "a fearless voice for feminism, human rights, and freedom".

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Investors voted down proposals for independent reports on Palantir’s human rights impact from its software used by government clients.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Before he died, Dr. King had told us we had moved from the Civil Rights era to the human rights era.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry