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Sep 25, 20215 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20216 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20217 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20217 min read
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 |...
Aug 22, 20214 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20218 min read
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...
Aug 22, 202113 min read
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....
Aug 22, 20214 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20218 min read
Bots and Biometrics
By Alina Glaubitz | alina.glaubitz@yale.edu Approximately 70 million people are on the move due to conflict, political instability,...
Aug 22, 20216 min read
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...
Aug 22, 202112 min read
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...
Aug 22, 20217 min read
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...
Sep 30, 20194 min read
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...
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