From the 1960s to the 1990s, the Danish government implemented the “Spiral Campaign,” a family planning policy that fitted four thousand and five hundred Inuit women and girls—many underage—with intrauterine…
The escalating women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan demonstrates a gap in international legal protections of the rights of women and girls. The international community should fill this gap by making…
This article situates Bangladeshi and Global South feminist praxis, a process by which theory is realized into action, within broader critiques of international law by Third World Approaches to International…
In this interview, Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, unpacks the challenges of global human rights advocacy, the rise of authoritarianism, and the fight for accountability in…
As climate change escalates, millions of people are projected to be displaced in the coming decades. However, the people displaced in the context of climate change and natural disasters, colloquially…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now influencing every area of human life. The past decade has seen a drastic increase in the use of AI, including facial recognition software, self-driving vehicles,…
The United Nations Mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was founded in 1991 to oversee the ceasefire of a sixteen-year war as well as the self-determination referendum on the future of…
As of late September 2013, two million refugees have fled the civil war in Syria—mostly into neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq—and thousands are expected to temporarily or permanently…
Safe and secure air travel strengthens the global economy and enables our interconnected way of life to thrive. Last year, commercial airlines carried nearly 3 billion passengers to their destinations.
State-sanctioned torture of citizens is still a regular occurrence to which attention must be drawn as some nations are allegedly “turning a blind eye” to this issue. Although one might…
