United States

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...

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...

Resettlement and the Road Ahead

Afghan evacuees face challenges securing visas, housing, and other necessities in New Haven. Refugee resettlement agencies are working to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 | ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...