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The basic rights of humans to equality, liberty, dignity and political expression have been debated by philosophers and political figures throughout history. Wars and revolutions have been fought to attain and preserve them. Yet millions of people throughout the world are still unjustly imprisoned, tortured and killed for their beliefs.
Children stand on the road outside the village of Tenke, in Congo's copper-producing south, near a smaller hamlet built by the Tenke Fungurume mining operation to rehouse local families displaced by the mine's expansion (REUTERS/Clara Ferreira-Marques).
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Transitions and Durable Solutions for Displaced Persons: 21 Reasons for Optimism
May 2, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris
Elizabeth Ferris examines why there is reason for optimism in achieving progress in building bridges between humanitarian and development actors to work on solutions for displaced populations.
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Testimony | Congressional-Executive Commission on China
March 5, 2012, Roberta Cohen
Testimony | House Subcommittees on Oversight and Investigations and on the Middle East and South Asia, Committee on Foreign Affairs
December 7, 2011, Elizabeth Ferris
Testimony | Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
October 25, 2011, Ted Piccone
Testimony | House Committee on Foreign Affairs
March 3, 2011, Ted Piccone
July 22, 2009, Suzanne Maloney
Testimony | United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
February 21, 2008, Suzanne Maloney
Testimony | House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight and The House Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
October 18, 2007, Daniel Benjamin
Testimony | Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
July 26, 2007, Daniel L. Byman
Testimony | House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
May 8, 2007, Shibley Telhami
February 8, 2007, Susan E. Rice
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Roberta Cohen
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
Elizabeth Ferris
Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
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Francis M. Deng
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