Melissa Krawczyk
Skeptic, Humanist, Atheist. Science & Human Rights. Studying Arabic. Secular Rescue @center4inquiry
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Spread Light Holiday List 2019
Download PDF | Print this pageThis time of year, numerous traditions celebrate the return of light—a powerful symbol of hope, guidance, courage shining against the odds. Our AoCC team offers these suggestions to spread more light in the world. You...
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Melissa Krawczyk
#SecularRescue, a project of @center4inquiry, has a newly-launched website and *online application* for #secular #atheist activists, bloggers, writers, publishers, etc. who face threats due to their promotion of secular ideas
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It's over: Australia ends human rights partnership with China
After more than two decades, the Human Rights Technical Co-operation program has been suspended. Here's why.
Transplant doctor rejects damaged donated lungs from chain-smoker — Fox News
The donor had been a chain-smoker for 30 years.
The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini discusses her book, "Superior: The Return of Race Science."
“They Were Shouting ‘Kill Them’” | Sudan’s Violent Crackdown on Protesters in Khartoum
This report documents Sudanese security forces’ attack on the protesters’ sit-in camp in Khartoum on June 3, 2019 and in following days in other neighborhoods of the capital, Khartoum, and neighboring Bahri and Omdurman. Human Rights Watch also...
After years trapped under the headscarf, Turkish women dare to show their hair again
The first time Ayse left home as an adult without her headscarf, her hair hanging loose in a chestnut bob, she feared someone would assault her. It was what she had been told happened to uncovered...
Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
The Christian human rights lawyer is challenging the laws, under which female heirs inherit half that of men.
Third of Catholic school pupils lack Protestant friends
More than a third of Catholic schoolboys in Scotland have sectarian views, according to a study thought to be one of the first to look at the views of students at some of Scotland’s 357 Catholic...
The Canadian boss who rescued 300 Syrian refugees
Entrepreneur Jim Estill spent CA$1.5m of his own money to bring Syrian refugees to Canada.
Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn't Just a Sideshow - Rewire.News - Religion Dispatches
Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative...
Sesame and the IRC join forces to help Syrian refugee children
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are teaming up on a major new effort to help young Syrian refugee children, including a new Sesame show in Arabic
Melissa Krawczyk
This is actually the longer piece I meant to share: cbsnews.com/news/sesame-st…
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How the Muppets are teaching children to cope with emotions
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee are collaborating to teach children how to handle tough emotions. The new Sesame edition is being made with refugee kids in mind
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Quote shared via Kindle: "Race is at its heart the belief that we are born different, deep inside our bodies, perhaps even in character and intellect, as well as in outward appearance. It’s the notion that groups of people have certain innate...
Melissa Krawczyk
Incidentally, this is the definition of "race" given by the author: "Race is at its heart the belief that we are…" - "Superior: The…"
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Quote shared via Kindle: "Yet we keep looking back to race because of its familiarity. We can’t help it. For so long, it has been the backdrop to our lives, the running narrative. We automatically translate the information our eyes and ears receive...
Melissa Krawczyk
I read @AngelaDSaini's book and found it extremely interesting. A good reminder of how much has changed in a short time & a reminder of the need for progress.
Check out this quote: "Yet we keep looking back to race because of…" - "Superior: The…" a.co/066HFI7 pic.twitter.com/3sa8XCYX3V
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Educational Anarchy: CFI Blasts Ohio Bill Saying Students’ Religious Beliefs Trump Reality | Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) today responded with astonishment and anger to the passage through the Ohio House of Representatives of a law which will result in Ohio public schools having to accept the religious beliefs of students as of equal...
Melissa Krawczyk
@primalpoly Not sure it's objective in the way you are seeking, but this seems reasonable to me
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Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact
We need to understand the science behind global warming to avoid the most damaging and irreversible climate change impacts on people and planet.
Frozen II Times - Movie Tickets + Showtimes
Why was Elsa born with magical powers? What truths about the past await Elsa as she ventures into the unknown to the enchanted forests and dark seas beyond Arendelle? The answers are calling her but also threatening her kingdom.
A 'gilded cage': What happened to Dubai's missing princesses?
Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and his wife are locked in a child custody battle in the UK, and the case could shed light on the fate of Dubai's missing princesses.
Saudi backpedals on video labelling feminism 'extremist'
Security agency video posted on Twitter taken down as officials say it contained 'many mistakes'.