Category: Human Rights & Development
138 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Olympic Boycotts in the 21st Century
“Boycotts do not accomplish political goals and only harm the athletes” Before 1992, Olympic boycotts were led by national governments protesting against other national…
October 15, 2021
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Contextualizing Erdogan’s Attacks on Bogazici University
On January 2, 2021, Turkey woke to the news that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed Melih Bulu as the Rector (President) of Bogazici University (BU), one of the country…
October 7, 2021
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Arbitrary Judicial Detention? The Challenges of Protecting Nationals Unfairly Detained Abroad
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior Huawei executive in Canada, created a considerable steer in China. Meng was arrested at the United States’ request for alleged fraud in…
October 6, 2021
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Cultural Rights Defenders: Strengthening Protections for Artists and Creatives
In January 2020 the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, released a report devoted to the notion of “cultural rights.” …
October 5, 2021
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: How Protest Movements Defend and Deepen Democracy
From 1974 to 1994, the world experienced an unprecedented wave of liberalization, referred to by political scientists as the Third Wave of democratization. For the first time in…
October 3, 2021
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The Uyghur Genocide through the Lens of the Child
Some members of the international community are growing increasingly aware of the human rights crisis in the homeland of the Uyghurs, a group of Turkic people indigenous to East…
August 17, 2021
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Opportunities and Challenges Affecting Migration in the Northern Triangle
Under the Trump administration’s system, mass incarceration and the subsequent deportation of immigrants became the main responses to those seeking asylum and other relief…
August 12, 2021
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Bringing Peace to Whom? What is at Stake in the Intra-Afghan Peace Talks
Although the war between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban has been at a stalemate for years, the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha, Qatar mark a breakthrough as the…
July 28, 2021
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Northern Ireland: New Trouble for a Post-Brexit Era
On April 7, 2021 a group of young men and children from the Protestant, loyalist Shankill Road area of West Belfast started a riot. They attacked one of the city’s many …
July 25, 2021
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EU Migration Policy Reform: Alternatives to the Australian Model
Introduction The Common European Asylum System was not well prepared for the 2015 refugee crisis. The European Union had been pursuing the harmonization of asylum policy since…
July 20, 2021