The 2022 Russia Sanctions Regime
On February 21, 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Federation would recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, two Russia-backed separatist regions of Ukraine, as independent sovereign states. On February...
Russia’s Wartime Censorship Laws – A Violation of Russians’ Human Rights
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin has struggled to keep his own people from joining the rest of the world in protesting the war. Following demonstrations, Putin heightened censorship of news media and journalists in Russia. Stifling dissent is a way for Putin to...
Trafficking in Armed Conflict: Addressing the Vulnerabilities of Ukrainian Refugees
Trafficking Overview: Trafficking in persons is defined in the Palermo Protocol as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of...
International Obligations of Asylum Countries to Protect Refugees
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...
Measuring Happiness: A Formidable Task
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)....
A Light on the Horizon: U.S. Border Expulsions Continue to Violate Non-Refoulement, but the Government is Slowly Changing its Stance
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...
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Regulations in the Art Market: Necessary or Not?
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...
The FIFA Legal Monopoly: Can FIFA Be Fixed?
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...
The Challenge of Repatriation of Women and Children Connected to the Islamic State
Over the course of the growth of the Islamic State (IS), almost half of recruited sympathizers were women coming from over 50 nations, globally. Once a part of IS, the roles of these women were varied – some were female fighters and others were simply wives caring for...
Consequences of COVID-19 on Global Food Insecurity
An overlooked, but detrimental element of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the food insecurity faced by millions throughout the United Nations (UN). Food insecurity refers to “a lack of available financial resources for food at the household level.” In 2019, it was...