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Managing Your Own Identity: The European Union’s Upcoming Biometric Passport
The European Union is in the process of creating the European Digital Identity: a biometric passport, or a central location for all identifying information. The purpose behind the passport is to enable Europeans to easily identify themselves and share selected...
The Child’s Right Act vs. Sharia Law: Girl-child Marriage In Nigeria
Child marriage is a human rights violation with many facets and consequences; it is a practice that disproportionately affects girls, stripping them of their agency to make decisions, inhibiting their education, and exposing them to violence and abuse. Countries have...
Antitrust Regulations and Their Impacts on International Relations and Law
In early March of 2020, a South Korean national who worked for German automotive company, Continental, was extradited to the United States. He pleaded guilty for his involvement in an international market allocation and bid-rigging conspiracy involving the sale of...
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...