Category: Human Rights & Development
138 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Europe’s Great Challenge: Integrating Syrian Refugees
The response to the refugee crisis from international organizations and host country governments has largely focused on providing humanitarian assistance for refugees.…
April 20, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
A New Compact for Rohingya Refugees
Across the border in Rakhine Province, the Myanmar military is busy bulldozing the former villages of the 670,000 refugees who fled last year, smoothing the foundations of…
April 18, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
From Health to Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela: Options for the International Community
Recent reports by international and national agencies, along with global news organizations, have documented dire public health conditions in Venezuela. Health services lack…
April 3, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
The Dark Side of Chinese Modernization
The 2017 annual Human Rights Watch Report on China finds that “the outlook for fundamental human rights, including freedoms of expression, assembly, association, and, …
March 2, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
Can the Media Solve the Problem of Sexual Harassment?
In a 2016 survey of U.S. federal workers, eighteen percent of women and six percent of men reported at least one occasion of sexual harassment in the preceding two years.…
March 1, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
After Defeating ISIS: A Renewed Opportunity to Prioritize Accountability in Iraq
Iraq has been caught in cycles of sectarian violence and unrest since the 2003 U.S. invasion which has claimed the lives of many and destroyed the country’s infrastructure and…
February 28, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
Who Owns Early Childhood Development (ECD)? Challenges of Implementation
The decision to prioritize ECD stems from compelling and consistent neuroscientific evidence over the last few decades, which has confirmed that 90 percent of brain growth is…
February 27, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
Re-imagining Water (and Energy) Sharing in South Asia
Water security has enormous consequences for agricultural productivity and food security in the region. To illustrate, India and Pakistan have over 80 million hectares combined…
February 27, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
The Pacific Islands: At the Confluence of Cultural Preservation and Climate Change
As opposed to the unpredictable calamities that regularly occur in the Pacific, the future may bring a much slower and more insidiously destructive scenario with the potential to…
February 20, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
For Refugee Protection, More Lenient Marriage Recognition is a Must
Out of the 58,179 total refugees admitted in the United States in 2012, most were not the principal applicants for admission but rather their spouses and unmarried children…
September 30, 2013