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Felix, Tsos, Felix Oct 2017

Felix, Tsos, Felix

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Felix is originally from Nigeria and has now been inItaly under a year. He came from a family with a polygamous father who “married” multiple wives illegally. After returning home from a service mission for his church, which his father supported, Felix began to study engineering. At some point conflict arose within the family that causedFelix to have to flee.He was smuggled through Niger to Libya, losing several friends along the way.There he was held for ransom, before taking a treacherous voyage across the sea in an overfilled boat, where he witnessed several drown. Now he lives in a camp …


2017 Lunchtime Lecture Series, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr) Mar 2017

2017 Lunchtime Lecture Series, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

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[Introduction To] Dismembered: Native Disenrollment And The Battle For Human Rights, David E. Wilkins, Shelly Hulse Wilkins Jan 2017

[Introduction To] Dismembered: Native Disenrollment And The Battle For Human Rights, David E. Wilkins, Shelly Hulse Wilkins

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While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments that are banishing, denying, or disenrolling Native citizens at an unprecedented rate. Since the 1990s, tribal belonging has become more of a privilege than a sacred right. Political and legal dismemberment has become a national phenomenon with nearly eighty Native nations, in at least twenty states, terminating the rights of indigenous citizens.

The first comprehensive examination of the origins and significance of tribal …