Hope you have all had a great week(end)! The past few days have been absolutely perfect one for me – delicious cupcakes from Molly’s, a friend’s birthday celebrations, Dillo Day (annual day of fun, sun, and concerts from Regina Spektor, Guster, and Nelly at Northwestern), a trip to the Lincoln Park Zoo (although I am still not a fan, morally, of zoos…this did confirm this viewpoint), and the excitement of another close friend visiting NU from out of town.
After I handed in my thesis on April 30th, I’ve just been trying my best to enjoy the time I have left in Chicago. Now that I’ve finally found the time to relax and explore, it’s just begun to sink in how very much I am going to miss this place and the people I love. I am, of course, excited to graduate and move on to a new chapter in my life. I haven’t really mentioned this on my blog, but I’ll be doing an internship with the ACLU’s National Prison Project in D.C. and then I’ll be working full time for a civil rights law firm – also in D.C. And while I am eagerly anticipating exploring my chosen field of public interest law in the nation’s capital – the perfect environment for public interest work – I am incredibly sad to leave behind the life I’ve built here in my three years at NU. But what would life be without change and growth, right?
Since this weekend has been busy, I thought I’d start the week off with some of the articles I’ve been seeing around this week. Lots of news here, so enjoy!
- Hunting for Liberia’s Missing Millions – How much money did , the deposed president of Liberia, siphon out of his destitute, war-shattered country, and where is it?
- The Scarlet Letters: HIV and Adolescent Life in Africa - A great example of how to write about Africa, by the Atlantic. h/t Texas in Africa.
- Amnesty International – Report 2010, State of the World’s Human Rights. Make sure to check out Amnesty’s annual report; I find the topic of the “global justice gap” particularly fascinating.
- LGBT Legal Status Around the World - Great website & resource I ran across via Twitter. Reflects the growing gay rights movement not just in the U.S. but worldwide (or rather, this type of information helps to bolster the activist movement).
- Behind the logo: different takes on the BP logo in light of the recent oil spill. Pretty fascinating! I think I like this one best..
- Zimbabwe says, we can imprison gay people too! A frustrating trend… except it’s not really a trend. Many governments have had harsh laws, even the death penalty, for being gay for years. Only NOW is the world noticing!
- International justice drama to open in Kampala - the ICC review conference!
- Another article about the ICC which is particularly interesting, talking about the crime of aggression. What do you think? Should this be included in the ICC statute?
That’s it for now. More blog posts coming soon. Happy Monday & Memorial Day to all! 
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