Close Up: Humanitarianism at the Border
The Humanitarian Crisis at the Border and Beyond, a panel discussion hosted by the School of Law and moderated by the Boston Globe’s Maria Cramer, was held April 18. Panelists were Nicole Ramos, director of Al Otro Lado Border Rights Project (from left), Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), and Sarah Sherman Stokes, associate director of […]
Telling the Truth about Rwanda
Pardee professor speaks today about his new book on country’s recovery Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, in 2006. Photo courtesy of Timothy Longman. Timothy Longman doesn’t go back to Rwanda anymore. Too much of his work has displeased the regime. “I don’t feel safe to go,” says […]
Elie Wiesel (Hon. ’74), Spokesman for Peace and Human Rights, Dies at 87
Auschwitz survivor, Nobel laureate, taught at BU since 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel (Hon.’74), BU’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1928–2016. AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a Nobel laureate, and the most powerful witness for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died Saturday at […]