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Our History |
When it was founded by Dr. Steeve Coupeau and Laurent Beaulieu in September 2003 as Advocacy News, this media company introduced a new benchmark in the use of new media for civic engagement. We later took on the name of NYIHA MEDIA to reflect our broad engagement in the defense of free expression. Since then, we have offered an engaging outlet for dialogue amongst established and emerging human rights defenders.
The recipient of awards from the National Black Programing Consortium, and Columbia University / Harlem Arts Alliance, NYIHA MEDIA has earned a reputation for its bold stance in the use of new media to promote diversity. Writing and reporting on local and national politics, with reviews of arts, cultural, musical, film and theater products and events, NYIHA MEDIA has become the best destination for news on political engagement of diaspora in New York City.
Our programs are executed with the support of our Board of Directors. NYIHA MEDIA is a partner of both Together TV and Stop Child Poverty, a campaign to promote the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015. NYIHA MEDIA is also a member of New America Media. |
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NYIHA (pronounced naya) is an African word for border. It is a site of cultural transformations associated with the formation of Diasporas, away from home. We offer an alternative paradigm to the dominant view, which restricts societal organization to a single geographic space. We use new media to promote civic engagement among scattered Diasporas beyond borders.
The concept of borders involves discussions of identity, nationality, ethnicity, hybridity, and community. We focus on submissions exploring “self” and the “other,” imagined geographic communities, the ways in which national authorities shun or integrate "outsider” influences, and Creole culture.
There is increasing awareness of global aspiration for human rights that transcends borders. By human rights we mean the right to food, shelter, health care, education, decent work, free speech, and justice and peace. While people may live in societies, derive their identities from their societies, the pursuit of human rights is best achieved through coordination across borders.
This project produces and publishes high caliber, reliable materials on African and Asian Diasporas in the Americas. Communities subjected to movements from Africa and Asia to North and Latin America display characteristics of Diasporas rather than nations. They show patterns of dispersal, belonging and remembered cultural heritage. NYIHA Media defends the human rights of migrants and migrant education. |
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Profile: Dr. Steeve Coupeau |
Dr. Steeve Coupeau serves as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of NYIHA MEDIA. Dr. Coupeau
has passion for and deep facility in media to stimulate civic participation. He has published 2 research books and multiple refereed journal articles in English, Spanish and French. Dr. Coupeau is a member of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. He has written and consulted widely on Latin American and Caribbean politics for various media outlets and academic publications including Humanus (USA), Avanzada (Uruguay) and Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil). |
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Profile: Carla De Ycaza |
Carla is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Her thesis research focuses on traditional and modern methods of post-conflict transitional justice in Africa. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law. Carla is an adjunct lecturer at NYU's Center for Global Affairs and teaches courses in international conflict resolution and transitional justice, as well as foundations of international human rights law. She is also a research consultant for the American Council on Africa, researching international law, and conflict resolution in Africa. |
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Profile: Florencia Ruiz Mendoza |
Florencia Ruiz Mendoza serves as a researcher with Mexico’s Social Movements Historical Research Center, a civil rights organization invested in research about the Mexican Dirty War to create a collective memory within Mexican civil society. The Center works in coalition with AFADEM and the Diego Lucero Foundation, to advocate on behalf of victims of forced disappearance in Mexico. She joined the Historical Area at the Special Prosecutor´s Office for Social and Political Movements of the Past as a researcher and documented war crimes in Guerrero. In 2009, she was selected as a human rights advocate by Columbia University’s Center for Studies of Human Rights. |
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Profile: Jordan Flaherty |
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| Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine, and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story of the Jena Six to a national audience and his reporting on post-Katrina New Orleans shared a journalism award from New America Media. Audiences around the world have seen the television reports he’s produced for TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now. |
| THE FACES OF NYIHA MEDIA |
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Staff Writers
Dr. Steeve Coupeau, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
Laurent Beaulieu
Florencia Ruiz
Occasional Contributors
Jordan Flaherty (USA)
Quince Duncan (Costa Rica)
Georgina Falu Ph.D. (Puerto Rico / USA)
Kumar Mahabir Ph.D. (Trinidad and Tobago / USA)
Ihan Betancourt (Colombia / USA)
Theresa Thanjan (India / USA) |
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Quick and valuable reference material, such as a timeline of historical events and a synopsis of notable people in the country's history, is available in the featured volumes. In addition, a brief glossary, a bibliographic essay, and an index end each book (Reviewed with The History of Vietnam).
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As a matter of policy, NYIHA MEDIA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, or physical disability.
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