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The Forgotten
This story is an inside look at the systematic warehousing of more than 17,000 adults and children in Serbia's mental institutions. Dateline NBC gained unprecedented access to remote, government-run facilities and found alarming and sometimes life-threatening conditions. The institutions are remnants of Serbia's communist past and symbols of a deeply ingrained prejudice against the mentally disabled and their families. Serbia's medical establishment continues to advise parents to put their mentally disabled newborns into institutions, and the government provides virtually no support for those who choose not to. In mental institutions throughout Serbia, Dateline found adults and children crammed into fetid rooms and metal cribs, their bodies emaciated, atrophied and disfigured. Some residents appeared to be children but they were actually young adults whose growth had been stunted by years of institutionalization. One of our most disturbing discoveries came while staying overnight in a dangerously overcrowded institution. There we learned that children are routinely tied to their bed railings for long periods of time - a practice that one disability rights organization says meets the legal definition of torture under international law.
Tags: mental health; Serbia; child abuse; patient abuse; patient rights; mental institutions
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Justice on the Grass
Temple-Raston investigates the events leading to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and how Rwanda has fared in the aftermath. She details the United Nations' trial of three Rwandan journalists charged with inciting the murder of Tutsis. She follows their convictions for helping to start the RTLM hate radio station in Rwanda. She conveys how ordinary Rwandans felt during the three month-long genocide. She refers to her study as "the most notorious media trial since Nuremberg."
Tags: genocide; Rwanda; United Nations; Tutsi; RTLM; Hutu; prejudice; UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; journalist; freedom of the press
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Immigrant Journey
Brown covered the story of immigration from Ecuador to Queens County, NY, the most ethnically diverse county in the nation, from both ends of the journey. He found that Ecuadoreans bring their prejudices with them, such as anti-gay opinions and a belief in the inevitability of corrpution in politics. But they also send money back home that keeps the country's economy afloat.
Tags: Immigration; Ecuador; INS; Central America; Latin America; New York City; diversity; poverty; economy
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Out of the Mainstream: Black students likelier to be put in special ed than whites, data show
This article shows how, both nationally and in Dallas, minority students are more likely than white students to end up in Special Education classes. "Many teachers and principals say special education helps disadvantaged children catch up with their peers. But some parents and civil rights leaders say minority children get separated from the mainstream and often do not return." This articles examines the numbers and then looks at possible reasons for the discrepancy.
Tags: education; discrimination; racial discrimination; prejudice
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Med School Turmoil
Dr. Issam Awad, the chairman of the neurosurgery department at Colorado's only medical schools, was accused by his colleagues of hurting patients, which prompted an investigation by a five-doctor committee that concluded that he gave substandard care in seven of the 10 cases reviewed and committed egregious violations of ethics. A series of FOIA requests and the anonymous mailing of the peer review of Awad's work made this a story that took considerable time and effort.
Tags: Education; Medicine; doctors; neurosurgery; scandal; racism; race; prejudice
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"Pride & Prejudice"
Six Morgan Hill, Calif., teens brought a lawsuit against their school district, saying the administration had failed to protect them from abuse and harassment. Most of the plaintiffs were gay, but one was a friend who was harassed because of her association. Alana Flores, the only plaintiff named, said students repeatedly left nasty messages and pictures in her locker and taunted her daily. The story includes anecdotes from other gay teens who were harassed, from teasing to beating. Some sources in the story blamed the size of Live Oak High School (more than 2,000 students in grades 10-12) for cliques that had formed and subsequent rejection and taunting.
Tags: gay; lesbian; homosexual; homosexuality; teens; teenagers; high school; school; harassment; abuse; lawsuit
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Pride and Prejudice
New Times reports "the story of a 17-year old Vietnamese immigrant Loi Nguyen's life and suicide in October 1998 tells of cultural and racial misconceptions, of ignorance and mistrust, and of a young man who became overwhelmed by his new environment, found a gun and shot himself... "
Tags: special education school system foreign students Asian-American teen taunting
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Busting the gay Bias
This Teen People Magazine article chronicles the experiences of two gay teens who fought for more than a year to form a gay-straight alliance at their high school. These teens created a club, despite much controversy. This article talks about widespread prejudice toward gays in Ceres, CA and in general.
Tags: gay bashing; bias; homosexuality; school tolerance; Ellen DeGeneres
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Education Week investigates the problems involved in working as a male elementary school teacher. Male grade school teachers are faced with prejudices from both parents and other female teachers who believe males do not have the nurturing qualities to teach young children or might molest the children. Teaching young children is also not viewed by the rest of society as a "masculine" occupation. (Sept. 11, 1996)
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In this NBC Nightly News investigation, Mark Fuhrman's record of abuse in Los Angeles P.D. is revealed. The report explained how Fuhrman attempted to cash in on the Simpson trial before it even began by trying to sell his story to movie producers, already knowing he would be the star witness in the trial. (August 29, 1995)
Tags: Rabel Francis Contest entry Court Civilian watchdog groups Prejudice Murder 4 pgs.