Category: Human Rights & Development
138 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
How to Constrain Dictators: Lessons from Georgia
Introduction Following the collapse of the USSR, many thought liberal democracy was a spear aimed at the heart of autocracy. Because it was more open, efficient, and popular, it…
February 24, 2026
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The Greenlandic Forced Contraception Cases: Apologies, Compensation and Beyond
Introduction From the 1960s until the 1990s, the Danish government adopted a family planning policy in Greenland, commonly referred to as the “Spiral Campaign,” which…
February 11, 2026
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The Shrinking Space for Public Protest: Examining the United Kingdom’s Proscription of Palestine Action
Introduction Since the events of October 7th, 2023, the global solidarity movement for Palestine has grown dramatically, drawing fracture lines between Western governments and an…
December 10, 2025
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Infanticide in the Name of Proportionality: Gaza as a World Order Problem
Introduction Since October 7th, 2023, 18,430 identified Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza, including a disconcerting number of toddlers: 937 under 12 months old, 486…
September 26, 2025
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Gender Apartheid as an International Crime: Taliban Oppression in Afghanistan Triggers Campaign
Introduction It has now been four years since what Afghans call “the fall.” On August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters swept into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, hours after the…
September 2, 2025
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Feminist Interventions from the Global South in International Law: Insights from Bangladesh
Introduction The July Revolution, also referred to as the Student-People uprising, was a student-led pro-democratic mass uprising in Bangladesh in the summer of 2024 that ousted…
July 2, 2025
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Oil Licenses and Repression: The Human Rights Impact of Sanctions Policy in Venezuela
Introduction On March 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) revoked General License No. 41 (GL41), a significant policy…
May 14, 2025
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Towards Gendered Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Introduction In April 2025, the foreign ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda met with the US Secretary of State to sign a Declaration of …
May 12, 2025
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Gendered Consequences of U.S. Mass Deportations: How Shifting Migration Policies Endanger Women and Girls
Introduction Women constitute half the world’s 281 million migrants and 19.6 million refugees. In Central America alone, women and girls accounted for approximately 49 percent…
May 6, 2025
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The Long Horizon of Returns to Syria
Introduction On December 8, 2024, the Assad regime in Syria fell after nearly fourteen years of civil war. Over the course of the conflict, more than 6 million Syrians were…
April 30, 2025