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Canadian Veteran Humanitarian Honoured by Chilean Embassy of Ottawa

Dr. John W. Foster honoured at the home of the Ambassador of Chile.

 

 

The Latin American Working Group is working in collabortion with the CNHH in order to collect, organize and publicize its historical activities.  Its website, “Si Hay Camino”  is already rich in material.  Most of its archives are deposited at the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) of York University, and the collection of books and archives has an online Finding Aid. In parallel, the CNHH is working with Carleton University Archives and Research Collections, to transfer John Foster’s personal papers there, to add to the papers of another veteran director of Oxfam Canada, Meyer Brownstone.

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Sonya de Laat published in online “Atlas on Humanitarianism and Human Rights.”

Sonya de Laat, a PhD student in Media Studies at Western University, Research Coordinator of the Humanitarian Health Ethics Research Group at McMaster University, and member of the CNHH, has an entry entitled, “Congo Free State, 1904: Humanitarian Photographs,” as part of the online “Atlas on Humanitarianism and Human Rights” that was officially launched this month: http://wiki.ieg-mainz.de/ghra/index.php?title=Online_Atlas_on_the_History_of_Humanitarianism_and_Human_Rights. This contribution was part of her participation in last summer’s inaugural Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (http://ghra.ieg-mainz.de).

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