The Iowa Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of gay marriage, making it the third state to allow such unions.
The Swedish Parliament has also approved same-sex marriage by an overwhelming margin.
The AAA has released an official statement in support of such unions.
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The Armenian Genocide Resolution has returned to headlines prior to Obama’s visit to Turkey. The resolution labels the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire starting in 1915 as “genocide.” According to The Hill, past administrations have failed to recognize the World War I-era killings as [...]
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In a reversal of Bush-era decisions, the Obama administration endorsed the UN Statement on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity.” The statement condemns human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity wherever they occur. The US is now the 67th nation of the UN’s 192 member states to sign the [...]
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AAA Executive Director Bill Davis and Director of Public Affairs Damon Dozier joined over 120 representatives and advocates from humanities-related associations to lobby and educate federal legislators on the importance of increased funding for the humanities.
Advocates distributed issue briefs, discussed humanities projects in their states and districts, and asked that members of Congress support increased [...]
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CounterPunch’s “Pulse of the Planet” series kicks off 2009 with Barbara Rose Johnston’s article, “Water Culture Wars.” The series was initially derived from conference papers delivered at the “Pulse of the Planet” panel during AAA’s 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco.
Johnston describes the controversial events that transpired at the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul, [...]
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The Friends of the Committee on Ethics was formally launched this month. This newly established ad hoc consultative body will provide expertise and informal consultation to the membership of the AAA about ethical quandaries they may have encountered in both research and applied settings. Comprised of former chairs of the Committee on Ethics, the Friends [...]
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The AAA Committee for Human Rights has written to Guatemalan authorities on numerous occasions regarding the safety of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Team (FAFG), especially its director Fredy Peccerelli who, along with his family, has been the target of several death threats. FAFG exhumes mass graves in an effort to identify massacre victims of [...]
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Call for PapersTitle: Health and the Productivity of Human Rights Discourses
Co-sponsor: Committee for Human Rights, American Anthropological Association
Abstract: This panel brings together ethnographic and theoretical papers to examine the productivity of human rights discourse in the fields of public health, medicine, and anthropology. In our contemporary world, a discourse of health as [...]
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AAA is one of several academic, free-speech, and civil-rights organizations to sign a letter to top officials in the Obama administration urging them to end the federal government’s practice of denying visas to foreign intellectuals based on ideology.
The letter–addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., and Secretary of [...]
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CNN reported that guerrilla troops of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have killed at least 10 more Awa Indians this week, bringing the total to 27 in the last two weeks. FARC targeted the Awa after accusing them of aiding the Colombian government. Earlier this week, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe called [...]
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