A high school weightlifter was in danger of being disqualified from the state championship because of her hair, so teammates and even some opponents stepped in to help.
When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, a large proportion of the human rights community happened to be gathered at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law.