Category: Human Rights & Development
141 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Short Pauses, Long Shadows: War-Legacy Aid and Vietnam’s Trust in U.S. Commitments
In mid-February 2025, as tarps blew off piles of dioxin-soaked soil at Bien Hoa airbase and demining teams across central Vietnam were sent home without pay, diplomats cabled…
May 26, 2026
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The Gen-Z Uprising in Kenya: Digital Dissent and the Struggle for a New Civic Order
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Kenya witnessed an unprecedented youth-led protest movement known as the Gen-Z Uprising or Gen-Z Revolt. Sparked by mass discontent over President…
May 18, 2026
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Two Sides of Japan’s Immigration Policy: Welcoming Migrant Workers and Excluding Asylum Seekers
In June 2023, the Japanese Parliament (Diet) passed a controversial amendment to the Immigration Control Act, establishing stricter regulations for asylum seekers and increasing…
April 27, 2026
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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