by Eric Cunningham | May 2, 2022 | All, Russia
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...
by Meredith Gusky | May 2, 2022 | All, Russia
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...
by Caroline Dumoulin | May 2, 2022 | All
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...
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 Zach Burgoyne | Apr 25, 2022 | All, GDP, United Nations
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)....
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 Jaclyn Corbo | Apr 21, 2022 | All, Europe, European Union, Financial, North America
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...
by Daniel Wilken | Apr 20, 2022 | All, Democracy, FIFA, Qatar, Russia, Sports
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...
by Isabel Triechel | Apr 20, 2022 | All, Europe, Islamic State, Refugee Law and Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, United Nations
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...
by Gabrielle Hangos | Apr 20, 2022 | All, Covid-19, Environment, United Nations
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...
