by Elizabeth Schroeder | Mar 21, 2022 | All, Comparative Law, North America, Uncategorized
A note on language: I use both “identity-first” (disabled person) and “people-first” (person with a disability) language throughout this article. People with disabilities are not a homogenous group, and different people have distinct preferences of how they would like...
by Meredith Gusky | Jan 24, 2022 | All, Asia, China, Human Rights, North America, Special Features, Sports, U.S. Foreign Policy
China is set to host the Winter Olympics, beginning on February 3, 2021. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, as well as Denmark, Estonia, and Lithuania announced a diplomatic boycott of the games. These countries will not send government officials to...
by Danielle Barnes-Smith | Sep 16, 2021 | All, Children, Human Rights, Indigenous PeoplesRights, Indigenous Rights, North America
Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. “For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore...
by Elise Levy | Aug 30, 2021 | All, Arms Control, Disarmament, National Security, North America, Nuclear Weapons, South Asia, Southeast Asia, U.S. Foreign Policy
Background The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has a long history of issues with nuclear compliance and other nuclear-capable nations. In the early 1990s, President Kim Il Sung had two main missions for his reign: (1) expel the United States...
by Connor Noel | May 10, 2021 | All, Comparative Law, Education, North America
One of the greater difficulties in assessing the success of different educational policies is deciding the best way to test for it. While standardized tests have been used for decades for this purpose, there are a multitude of opponents who believe standardized tests...
by Danielle Barnes-Smith | Feb 15, 2021 | All, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, North America
Note on Terminology: Across North America, different indigenous groups identify with different terms. A number of tribes in the United States identify as American Indian or indigenous while some in Canada identify instead as First Nation. There is no single term...
