by Sabrina Rodriguez | Nov 1, 2022 | All, Children, Columbia, Covid-19, Ecuador, Egypt, Human Rights, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations, Women
Introduction The right to protest is under threat across all regions of the world and repression has grown increasingly common. This year, we have seen various examples of this repression in Russia, Iran, Ecuador, and Chad. However, this problem has always been...
by Elizabeth Schroeder | Oct 24, 2022 | All, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Women
A note on language: I use both ‘identify-first’ (disabled person) and ‘people-first’ (person with a disability) language throughout this article because English-speaking disability advocates use (and request that other people use) one or both of these. People with...
by Elizabeth Duncan | Oct 12, 2022 | Africa, All, Environment, Human Rights, Women
Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_watering_crops,_Tanzania.jpg https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/our-work Land is often the most important asset for households and individuals in the developing world, the majority of whom rely on...
by Andrea Lorch | Oct 10, 2022 | All, CEDAW, Comparative Law, Human Rights, Iran, Protests, Women
Over the last three weeks, protests have erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was a 22-year-old woman from Kurdistan who was arrested by the morality police, a special sect of law enforcement, in Tehran for “immodest...
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 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...
