September 23, 2016 Today a group affiliated with the Indigenous People of Biafra brought a peaceful protest to the area outside of the Human Rights Initiative office here in Dallas. Biafra is a region of Nigeria. Their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is on trial in Nigeria. As reported by Newsweek, “Nigerian …
The Story of Vanessa
THE STORY OF VANESSA A seventeen-year-old, homeless warrior By Madiha Kark Recently, Human Rights Initiative took on the case of a young seventeen-year old girl from Ivory Coast. Vanessa is currently enrolled at Richland College and hopes to one day become a petroleum engineer. Unfortunately, those dreams seem to be …