by Mark Rook | Nov 4, 2022 | All, Human Rights, immigration, Uncategorized
Feature Image for Article. Source: https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/62e9986df57bcae37888ae9c/master/pass/migrants-sent-to-dc-by-bus.jpg Non-Citizens Bussed to Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago Since April 2022, Texas governor Greg Abbot has bussed...
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 Mark Rook | Nov 5, 2021 | All, Arbitration, China, Exclusive Economic Zone, South China Sea, UNCLOS
Over five years have passed since the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a binding decision that China had breached its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China’s offenses included fishing within the Philippines’...
by Mark Rook | Mar 22, 2021 | Africa, All, Covid-19, Human Rights, Refugee Law and Policy
Today, the global refugee crisis is more pressing than ever before. As of mid-2020, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a staggering 80 million, comprised mostly of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees settled into host countries....