Social Justice Resources: Human Rights Day (December 10), Civil Rights

This special issue on “Forced Migration: Making Sense of a Complex Ecosystem” offers a timely assemblage of five research articles, one special feature paper, one report from the field, and four book reviews, depicting the myriad challenges associated with forced mobilities and the multiplicity of responses to these challenges

Human Rights Day is observed each year to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, August 23 of each year, the day designated by UNESCO to memorialize the transatlantic slave trade

The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on 23 August each year

Secretary-General António Guterres' video message on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

United Nations-Department of Economic and Social Affairs Indigenous Peoples

Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80 on Friday, July 17th, 2020

John Lewis has been called "the conscience of the U.S. Congress"_Biography resource from the johnlewis.house.gov

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early civil rights organizer and field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dies at 95 on Friday, July 17th, 2020

Slavery in the USA was abolished in 1865, but black Americans did not have equality_summary by BBC

Two towering figures John Robert Lewis and Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." of the American civil rights movement died Friday, July 17th, 2020, a day before the birthday of the late Nelson Mandela -- another renown champion of racial equality. It is a major loss for a nation still grappling with protests and demands for racial equality decades later

On World Humanitarian Day (WHD) August 19, the world commemorates humanitarian workers killed and injured in the course of their work, and we honour all aid and health workers who continue, despite the odds, to provide life-saving support and protection to people most in need