by Amanda Bini | Apr 15, 2022 | All, Human Rights, Latin America, United Nations, Women
Image Attribution: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos from Washington, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Pictured above is Dubravka Šimonović, the former Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its...
by Mary Ameringer | Apr 15, 2022 | Asia, China, History, North America, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Trade, U.S. Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
Bao Bao during her public debut at the National Zoo in 2013. Her birth appeared on the zoo’s live panda cam and generated a surge in viewership that crashed the site. Is there something more to these beloved bears than munching on bamboo and bumbling around? April 16,...
by Meredith Gusky | Apr 14, 2022 | Europe, Foreign Tribunal, Germany, Human Rights, Law of War, Middle East & North Africa
In January 2022 the first war crimes trial for atrocities committed in Syria concluded with a guilty verdict for Anwar Raslan. Raslan was a Syrian intelligence officer charged with committing the crimes of rape, murder, and sexual assault while working at a prison...
by Jonathan Haskin | Apr 13, 2022 | All, Climate Change, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized
On March 1st, just five days after Russia’s surprise invasion of Ukraine, Switzerland-based energy company Nord Stream 2 AG filed for bankruptcy. The company’s future had already been imperiled the previous week by the German government’s decision to withdraw...
by Nur Evin Mercan | Apr 12, 2022 | All, Human Rights, Ukraine
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on Feb. 24. As many individuals found themselves caught within a dangerous warzone, Ukrainians were “forced to seek refuge in other countries” according to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. According...
