Breathing as a Human Right: Cancer Alley as a Case Study of Environmental Racism
What’s in a name? Cancer Alley is a term coined to describe a region in southern Louisiana with high rates of cancer and other serious...
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May 31, 20228 min read
The State of Reproductive Rights in Latin America-Ripples and Rollbacks
Amidst the looming threat of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, and state trigger laws in place, we look to Latin...
May 31, 20229 min read
Resettlement and the Road Ahead
Afghan evacuees face challenges securing visas, housing, and other necessities in New Haven. Refugee resettlement agencies are working to...
May 31, 20228 min read
Cobalt: The ‘Blood Diamond’ of Congo
Since 1996, over six million Congolese citizens have died as a result of genocidal wars and the exploitative conditions of Western...
May 31, 20227 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret Epidemic of Illiteracy in the United States
America has a literacy problem, and it’s worse than you think. Amelia Lake | amelia.lake@yale.edu The ability to read is an essential...
Sep 25, 20218 min read
ICE Immune to Following Public Health Policy During the Pandemic
How the coronavirus pandemic has harmed immigrants in detention centers, violating the human rights to life and asylum, and what this...
Sep 25, 20218 min read
Marching for Public Health, Not In Spite of It
By Isabella Marin | isabella.marinquintero@yale.edu A crowd of protesters facing the police in New York City. Image courtesy of Johannes...
Sep 25, 20217 min read
Equality and Fairness for Some: Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The challenges, changes, and unexpected benefits to elementary education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Maia Decker | ...
Sep 25, 20217 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Impact of Coronavirus on Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) By Astri Doub | astri.doub@yale.edu At the...
Sep 25, 20217 min read
A Hidden Population: Navigating COVID-19 with Homeless Youth
By Faith Evanson ⎸ faith.evanson@yale.edu A “hidden population”— this is how many describe the community of homeless youth in...
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, 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, 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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