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President apologizes for federal government’s role in Indian boarding schools

  • KRTV, October 25, 2024

The ‘Rest of the Story’ — rape and incest

  • Post Bulletin, October 10, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

World Without Genocide Honors Former UN Special Rapporteur Javid Rehman for Supporting Victims of Iran’s 1988 Massacre

  • National Council of Resistance of Iran, October 7, 2024, by Amir Taghati

Special Recognition, Dr. Javaid Rehman, former UN Special Rapporteur of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

  • October 3, 2024

Nothing but the sound of silence for Sudan

  • MinnPost, October 3, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

LETTER: Get your theology out of our politics

  • Sun Post, October 2, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

The Bitter Fight Over the Meaning of ‘Genocide’

  • The New York Times, August 20, 2024

Starvation: a war crime

  • Twin Cities Pioneer Press, July 22, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Uyghur-American politician calls out China’s alleged trade in ‘Halal Organs’

  • The Economic Times, June 24, 2024

How justice could play out in the international case against Israel

  • StarTribune, June 8, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Edina resident receives national FBI Award

  • Edina Sun Current, May 16, 2024

Ellen Kennedy receives national and local FBI awards

  • Mitchell Hamline School of Law, May 2, 2024

Minneapolis – Dr. Ellen Kennedy: 2023 Director’s Community Leadership Award Recipient

  • FBI, April 2024

Ellen Kennedy on The End of Life: Who Gets to Decide?” – The Mary Hanson Show

Alums join World Without Genocide

  • Mitchell Hamline Alumni, March 26, 2024

Bodily autonomy, as my grandmother’s struggle showed me, is indeed a universal human right

  • MinnPost, March 19, 2024, by Rachel Hall Beecroft

What to do when the world is on fire

  • The Arkansas Traveler, March 18, 2024, by

How we die matters

  • Twin Cities Pioneer Press, March 14, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Minnesota letter campaign aims to support political prisoners in Russia

  • StarTribune, February 20, 2024, by Maya Rao

Film shows what doing ‘whatever the hell they want’ looks like

  • StarTribune, February 16, 2024, by John Rash

Deep Dive: Public Testimony About Dying With Dignity Legislation

  • Minnesota Women’s Press, January 30, 2024, by Mikki Morrissette,

Minnesota’s end-of-life options bill clears its first legislative hurdle

  • Star Tribune, January 25, 2024, by Reid Forgrave and Briana Bierschbach

A small act of friendship that has enormous impact: writing to a detainee in Russia

  • MinnPost, January 11, 2024, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., Michelle Massey, and Elena Mityushina

Northeast Minneapolis woman who survived two genocides in Ukraine sees history repeating

  • Star Tribune, December 16, 2023, by Reid Forgrave

History shows that language can dehumanize, incite — and lead to genocide

  • MinnPost, December 6, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Minnesota considers expanding assisted suicide access, but critics call it anything but ‘compassionate’

  • Fox News, November 17, 2023, by Courtney O’Brien

Never forget, always protect journalists, our ‘voices for truth‘”

  • Duluth News Tribune, November 11, 2023, by Sen. Sandy Pappas and Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

At Death’s Door: Will terminally ill patients in Minnesota be allowed to choose when life ends?

  • Star Tribune, November 10, 2023

White Roses and the White Rose: using the techniques of democracy to protest injustice

  • MinnPost, November 3, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Countering transnational repression

  • The Canadian Bar Association National publication, October 24, 2023, by Joanna Michalopoulos

Kennedy, Pappas: Israel, Palestine – and Minnesota

  • Twin Cities Pioneer Press, October 15, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D. and Sen. Sandy Pappas

Coup in Niger can prompt U.S. to review its support for democracies abroad

  • MinnPost, September 15, 2023, by Lesley Bauer

Push begins in Minnesota to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives

  • MPR News, September 7, 2023

Momentum builds for End-of-Life Options Act in Minnesota

  • Fox 9 KMSP, September 6, 2023

Congratulations to our 2023 NMU Alumni Award Recipients

  • NMU Alumni Relations, August 24, 2023

When foreign agents harass, intimidate or assault people in the U.S.

  • MinnPost, August 16, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Prosecuting War Crimes in Ukraine

  • Minnesota State Bar Association’s Bench + Bar, August 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Nowhere to call home

  • MinnPost, June 30, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Echoes of 1933?

  • MinnPost, May 16, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

2023 Liberty Bell Award Goes to Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy

  • Ramsey County Bar Association, 2023

My husband wanted to die with dignity

  • Rochester Post Bulletin, April 3, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

End of Life Option Act affords us the right to die with dignity

  • MinnPost, March 27, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Felons Can’t Vote: Civil Death in the US

  • MSBA’s Bench and Bar, March 3, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D. and Judge Tara Kalar

From genocide to a new global human rights crimes… crimes against humanity

  • MinnPost, February 6, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Christian Nationalism and the Far Right

  • MinnPost, December 23, 2023, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

World Without Genocide is in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council:

Exploring the role of rail systems in genocide

  • MinnPost, November 1, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Being denied voting rights is a form of ‘civil death’”

  • MinnPost, September 29, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Antisemitism Is surging. Here’s a primer.

  • MinnPost, August 18, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Why the US should designate India a ‘country of particular concern’

  • Twin Cities Pioneer Press, August 11, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., Bernard Hebda, Anantanand Rambachan, and Debra Rappaport

When citizens disappear at the hand of the state

  • MinnPost, July 27, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

It’s dangerous to be trans in prison

  • Duluth News Tribune, July 2, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D. and Judge Tara Kalar

Does genocide have a color, in U.S. consciousness and policy? Consider the various victims

  • MinnPost, June 23, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

‘Anti-trans … laws are solutions to problems that do not exist’

  • Duluth News Tribune, May 12, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

“War Crimes and War Criminals”

  • MinnPost, April 11, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

The Cases that can be Made against Vladimir Putin

  • Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D. and Bradley Lehrman, J.D.

Putin continues the Russian history of war and genocide in Ukraine

  • MinnPost, March 3, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Antisemitism and Genocide – Over and Over Again

  • MinnPost, February 1, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

“It’ll take more than food aid to counter Uyghur genocide”

  • Rochester Post Bulletin, February 1, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Genocide by Social Media Posts:  Will Facebook be held Accountable?

  • Owatonna People’s Press, January 4, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Genocide by Social Media Posts:  Will Facebook be held Accountable?

  • MinnPost, January 3, 2022, by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.