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From Slavery to Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland

11/20/2019

From Slavery to Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland He was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1818-1895) in Cordova, Maryland, USA. After escaping from slavery in Maryland he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and his incisive antislavery writings. Described as tall and handsome in his late twenties, just how late he didn’t know. Slavery had robbed him of knowledge about the exact circumstances of…

IFJ resolution calls on U.N. to end exclusion of Taiwan journalists

06/19/2019

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Taipei, June 19 2019 (CNA) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has put forth an urgent resolution condemning the United Nations’ « discriminatory exclusion » of Taiwan journalists at this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva and demanding that the U.N. end such a policy. « Amongst nearly 23.8 million people having been stripped of voice are also journalists, who were barred from press briefings at the Assembly for being holders of Taiwan passport and working for a bona fide media…