Akaash Maharaj

Feb 1

We Remember: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The 27th of January 2022 is the seventy-seventh anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps. In the years afterwards, the United Nations declared this day International Holocaust Remembrance Day. CIJA, Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and the World Jewish Congress have chosen the…

Weremember

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Jan 27

We Will Prevail: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Truth, and Reconciliation

Whoever coined the adage “Never meet your heroes” could not have met Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 1994, South Africa held its first genuinely democratic elections. Nelson Mandela went from being the state’s most execrated prisoner, to its president. Apartheid was slain. …

South Africa

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We Will Prevail: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Truth, and Reconciliation

Akaash Maharaj

I work in international peacemaking, ride for Canada in equestrian sport, and write on statecraft and public policy ❦ www.Maharaj.org

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