{"id":424,"date":"2009-07-16T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:49:48","slug":"424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/07\/16\/424\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_423\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-423\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/valerierwanda.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Curator Valerie Love in Rwanda\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/valerierwanda.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/valerierwanda-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/valerierwanda-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/valerierwanda-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curator Valerie Love in Rwanda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and the Alternative Press Collection at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, is witnessing human rights work first hand in Kigali, Rwanda, as a participant in a human rights delegation through the organization Global Youth Connect.\u00a0 Fifteen years ago, between 800,000 and 1 million people were killed in a horrific genocide that attempted to destroy the Tutsi minority and also targeted moderate Hutus in Rwanda.\u00a0 &#8220;The new government has made extraordinary progress in restoring stability and security to a ravaged society; however the many scars of genocide are still visible and the work of justice and reconciliation is ongoing,&#8221; she writes in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for details in an upcoming issue of the Libraries&#8217; newsletter and the University&#8217;s new news website.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and the Alternative Press Collection at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, is witnessing human rights work first hand in Kigali, Rwanda, as a participant in a human rights delegation through the organization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/07\/16\/424\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}