2019-2020

Qatar’s Migrant Labor Crisis

By Emiliano Salomón | emiliano.salomon@yale.edu The World Cup draws millions of soccer fans every year. However, few are aware that the...

Human Rights and the Education System of the United States

By McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu This article aims to give a general overview of the human rights concerns within our...

The Singapore We Refuse To Acknowledge

An account of the human rights violations behind one of the most successful nations in the world, and how Yale and Yale-NUS are defined...

The Crisis of Girls’ Education in West and Central Africa

Obstacles to securing the right to education amidst violence, gender expectations & colonial legacy By Eliza Kravitz |...

Let’s Get Serious About Girls’ Education in Pakistan

Most girls in Pakistan aspire to “be someone.” They desire education and think of it as a means of breaking free from the cycles of...

Modern Slavery in Mauritania

Slavery still exists. It is not a practice banished by history, locked within the “shameful episode” chapter of a textbook. It is a...

Education Programs in Prisons: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustaining a Program — And Then What?

Driven largely by institutional barriers and notions of worthiness, education programs in prisons are vulnerable and controversial....

Gay Rights as Human Rights: The Pitfalls & Promises of Global LGBTQ Activism

Are human rights a form of imperialism? Is LGBTQ advocacy relevant in the Global South? Addressing these questions, this article analyzes...

Bots and Biometrics

By Alina Glaubitz | alina.glaubitz@yale.edu Approximately 70 million people are on the move due to conflict, political instability,...

Making a Profit from Incarceration — The Human Rights Concern of Contract Prisons

By McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu The country was first introduced to for-profit or “contract” prisons as a response to...

Prisons Never Worked

By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu For a week in 1842, Fred A. Packard, a public intellectual famous for his advocacy for...

Obstruction of the American Voter

By Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu The Voting Rights Act of 1965, also known as the VRA, is commonly considered the most...

Gun Control: A Matter of Life, Death, and Fundamental Rights

By Nellie Conover-Crockett | nellie.conovercrockett@yale.edu On February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz went on a rampage, firing wildly at...