Category: Human Rights
A Decade of Disappointment: MENA’s Arab Winter Likely to Persist Well into the 2020s
Predicting the future of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a herculean task. The area’s heterogeneity, often underestimated by generalisations that the term ‘Arab World’ evokes, is
Read MoreWolf in Sheep’s Clothing: How a New Act creates a right to discriminate
In the United States on December 6th, the Fairness For All Act was introduced in the House of Representatives. The Act is sponsored by the representative of Utah, Chris Stewart.
Read MoreThe Quest to Free Prometheus: Is China involved in Organ Harvesting?
On Tuesday the 24th of June, a counsel to the China Tribunal, an independent panel investigating if the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been involved in ‘organ harvesting’, called
Read MoreYemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Catastrophe
Yemen is currently facing the largest humanitarian catastrophe the world has witnessed in the last hundred years. Approximately sixteen million people are without access to adequate food supplies and require
Read More30 Years of Children’s Rights: The Influence of and on the Youth
Less than a week ago, the World Children’s Day was celebrated, along with the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It has gone
Read MoreHuman Trafficking: How Western Policies Could Be Blamed
On an early Wednesday morning, the Essex Police made the brutal discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container truck, east of London. Not all victims have been identified yet,
Read MoreThose for Whom the War Lives On – A View on The Aftermath of Agent Orange
As a geopolitical foreign policy strategy, the ‘Containment’ of a Communist spread into various regions of the Global South kept the United States actively engaged abroad throughout the Cold War.
Read MoreFrom declassification to decriminalization: the long road to LGBT equality in India
In September 2018, LGBT people in India celebrated after the country’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down a colonial-era ban on gay intimacy. This judgment legalized the sex lives of an
Read MoreWhat is happening in Sudan?
Recently, social media has blown up with support for Sudanese protesters. Many have been sharing information about the crisis and urging people to inform themselves. Online, Western media has faced
Read MorePoland and the LGBT Movement: A Clash
Over the past weeks, a clash between freedom of speech and laws banning hostility against religious beliefs has become evident in Poland. Being a predominantly Catholic country, the actions of
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