by Sehar Jamal | Apr 29, 2022 | All, Human Rights, Refugee Law and Policy, Ukraine, United Nations
https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/05/558212-all-refugees-want-go-home-someday-unhcr-spokesperson-and-author-melissa-fleming What Are States Obligated to Do? At the close of World War II an estimated 60 million people were displaced, creating the origins of modern...
by Zach Burgoyne | Apr 25, 2022 | All, GDP, United Nations
GDP is a bit old-fashioned. Economists have heavily relied on GDP to guide national and international policy, however, many economists are jumping onto a new bandwagon that finds its origins in the small, Buddhist nation of Bhutan: Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH)....
by Mark Rook | Apr 22, 2022 | All
Background on Title 42 Since March of 2020, the U.S. government has used a statute of the Public Health Code to expel over 1.7 million noncitizens from the United States. The Trump Administration utilized a statute from the 1944 Public Health Service Act to...
by Jaclyn Corbo | Apr 21, 2022 | All, Europe, European Union, Financial, North America
Money laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF) in the art market is a hot, new topic for governments around the world, specifically the US, United Kingdom (UK), and the European Union (EU). Why? The art market is a largely underregulated, highly profitable...
by Daniel Wilken | Apr 20, 2022 | All, Democracy, FIFA, Qatar, Russia, Sports
Introduction FIFA, or the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, is the lawmaking body for world soccer. It is responsible for not only creating the laws of the game on the field, dictating what qualifies as a handball or when using the newly designed...
