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Aug 22, 20214 minLet’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...
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Aug 22, 202113 minEducation 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 minGay Rights as Human Rights: The Pitfalls & Promises of Global LGBTQ ActivismAre human rights a form of imperialism? Is LGBTQ advocacy relevant in the Global South? Addressing these questions, this article analyzes...
Aug 22, 20218 minBots and BiometricsBy Alina Glaubitz | alina.glaubitz@yale.edu Approximately 70 million people are on the move due to conflict, political instability,...
Aug 22, 20216 min Making a Profit from Incarceration — The Human Rights Concern of Contract PrisonsBy McKenna Christmas | mckenna.christmas@yale.edu The country was first introduced to for-profit or “contract” prisons as a response to...
Aug 22, 202112 minPrisons Never WorkedBy 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 minObstruction of the American VoterBy Andrew Bilodeau | andrew.bilodeau@yale.edu The Voting Rights Act of 1965, also known as the VRA, is commonly considered the most...
Oct 1, 20194 minGun Control: A Matter of Life, Death, and Fundamental RightsBy Nellie Conover-Crockett | nellie.conovercrockett@yale.edu On February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz went on a rampage, firing wildly at...