Category: Human Rights & Development
138 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
The Silenced Epidemic: Why Does Russia Fail to Address HIV?
Introduction The number of people living with HIV in Russia reached more than 1.1 million in June 2021. Over the previous five years, between 85,000 and 100,000 new infections…
January 31, 2022
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The ICC Investigation and Accountability in the Philippines
When the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on September 15, 2021, that it was formally opening an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in the, …
January 28, 2022
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Madagascar’s Famine Is More than Climate Change
In June of 2021, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that 14,000 people in southern Madagascar were facing a Level Five “food catastrophe,” the most severe category of…
January 24, 2022
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Gender Ideologies, Leadership, and Development in Cameroon
Women in Cameroon face barriers to attaining leadership positions. These barriers appear both in both physical and ideological space. Physical spaces consist of leadership…
December 17, 2021
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Will Biden’s Plan to Resettle Afghans Transform the U.S. Refugee Program?
President Joe Biden campaigned to rebuild the United States’ system of resettling refugees, the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), which had been severely undermined by the…
December 11, 2021
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Lifting the State of Emergency in Egypt – The Limitations of a Regional and International Message
On October 25, 2021, the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, announced in a Facebook post that he intended to lift the state of emergency that had been in effect since…
December 10, 2021
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Why is There a Humanitarian Crisis at the Polish-Belarusian Border?
A mother, father, and four young children fleeing Iraq were found by Polish human rights activists on the night of October 10, 2021, in a forest near the Polish-Belarusian. …
November 17, 2021
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Addressing Central and South American LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
On January 25, 2019, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “Remain…
November 16, 2021
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Tunisia: A Failed Democratic Experiment?
Flanked by security officials and traditionally apolitical military officers, President Kaïs Saïed’s July 2021 power grab has plunged Tunisia into its worst crisis since. …
November 12, 2021
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Un-remembering the Massacre: How Japan’s “History Wars” are Challenging Research Integrity Domestically and Abroad
The Great Earthquake and the Massacre In September 2023, Japan will commemorate the centenary of one of the twentieth century’s worst disasters: the Great Kanto Earthquake,…
October 25, 2021