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As the Biden Administration takes office, the crimes committed against the Rohingya may once more become a focus for American policymaking. On Friday, January 29 from 12-1 pm EST, PILPG and Orrick hosted an expert roundtable on the topic of the Rohingya Crisis and the legal basis to conclude that the Rohingya were the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
In 1867 Taro Kusakabe (1845-70), a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers College. Several years later, his former tutor and Rutgers alumnus William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) left for Japan to teach, first in Fukui and later in Tokyo. The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship: the untimely death of Kusakabe only months before his graduation and his friend Griffis’s departure to Japan. READ MORE.
Held as a webinar on October 1, 2020 at 8pm EDT, this panel discussion built on an earlier screening screening of Ramona Diaz’s film A Thousand Cuts (2020).
Read more: Watch: A Thousand Cuts On Media, Policing, and Authoritarian Brutality
By Sangeeta Bhagawati & Sneha Khaund. The coronavirus pandemic is a tremendous challenge for the people of Assam, and its publishing industry is no exception. READ MORE
By Asher Ghertner and Stuti Govil. Amidst rising Hindu majoritarianism in India, Muslim women-led urban occupations hold different communities together in the face of accusations that their very togetherness is disorder. READ MORE