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    Thinking of a career in Human Rights? Applications now open for our LLM programmes: •International Human Rights Law •International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy •International Criminal Law •Peace Support Operations and IHL Further info:

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  2. Join us next Tuesday 11th at 4pm for a seminar w/ Prof. Kendall Thomas . 'Reflections on Practising Queer Legal Theory and 'Is Black Marriage Queer?' | All welcome!

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    CAA in 'clear violation' of Indian Constitution and international human rights law: Amnesty via

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    Trans women and non binary femme folk on the walls of Collins Barracks for a project by

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  5. Read important submission to UN SR on truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence, on the subject of memorialisation, access to data and archives - link below.

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  6. Current holder of the fellowship in int'l law, Wesam Ahmad, PhD researcher working on business + hrts featured on website - also on Carter Center for Human Rights, HRDs blog @

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    Call for Papers - Abstracts Deadline Feb 15 Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland through Engagement & Dialogue. More info Glencree PeaceIV Project with

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    In this episode, we’re asking which political parties & candidates have women, equality and diversity at the heart of their policies? w/ , and Listen to the discussion here: 🎧

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  9. There were people who were displaced. It has to be resolved politically today and made sure that all people can live in peace.’

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  10. ‘The situation in Palestine is a big problem for me esp. when I’m talking about refugees. The Jewish people needed a homeland so that what happened in the late 30s can’t happen again. However in order to establish the State of Israel in 1948-49 there were people who suffered.

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  11. ‘Only by remembering history can we stop history repeating itself. The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. It began with whispers. It is up to us all to make sure we stop it happening again. We have to stop it at the whisper stage. Racism around the world is on the rise.’

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  12. I’ve been speaking all over Ireland- I have visited 600 schools in Ireland, and I also speak abroad...I’ve realised I’m one of the last witnesses. It was a decision, ‘I have to inform young people. I also really owe it to the victims to ensure that their memory is not forgotten.’

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  13. Tomi explains that he didn’t speak about his experience for 60 years. Although his wife knew he was a Holocaust survivor, he never told her what happened. After his wife passed away, he retired and began writing magazine articles. He has partnered with the since 2004

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  14. On 7 March 1945 my grandmother passed away. I will never forget, I will carry that memory forever... she was a skeleton... they threw her on the pile of corpses outside. She used to read me stories when I was younger, she made me the loveliest cakes. That’s how she was buried.

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  15. At one point 500 people were dying per day in Bergen Belsen. It is estimated that 70,000 people died there.

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  16. Many people could not withstand the torture of starvation and they would run towards the barbed wire at night, whereupon guards would shoot them.

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  17. Bergen Belsen was not an extermination camp but people were dying right in front of our eyes, of disease such as typhoid, and of starvation, and cold. When we arrived what we saw was hell on earth. We saw skeletons walking around. When they fell most didn’t get up.

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  18. Having reached Bratislava on false papers secured by a Catholic priest, Tomi’s family was betrayed and in 1944 aged 9 he was deported by Gestapo to Bergen Belsen concentration camp with his mother, grandmother, brother, aunt and cousin.

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  19. children on the corner, upon seeing the star, started shouting insults and ‘that was the first time I realised, ‘I’m different.’

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  20. Tomi describes growing up as a child in Slovakia, which had a fascist regime and therefore was not occupied by Germany. In 1941 he had to move school due to new laws expelling Jews from public life & society, and started to wear the yellow star. When walking to school on his own

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  21. ‘Today, there are people looking for safe haven and nobody wants them. The subject of the Holocaust is more important than ever. And the sad thing is, it’s being forgotten.’

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