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by Olga Emelyanovich* Introduction For the past decade, the Belarusian agenda has largely focused on the issue of combating trafficking in women and children by actively implementing its international obligations. Specifically, Belarus passed preventive legislative and practical measures as a…
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Photo of Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands via Wikimedia Commons user Saperaud, licensed under CC0 by Erin Thomas* Introduction The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic…
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By Ridhi Shetty
President Rodrigo Duterte has been on a mission to eradicate drug users and traffickers—and now his administration has set its sights on children. On January 28, 2019, the House of Representatives approved a bill to lower the minimum age of…
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By Ridhi Shetty
The brutal murder of Turdaaly Kyzy sparked protests against the Kyrgyz cultural practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. On May 27, 2018, a twenty-nine-year-old man abducted twenty-year-old medical student Burulai Turdaaly Kyzy to force her into marriage. After police detained…
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By Ridhi Shetty
The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Clans of British Columbia are protesting the British Columbia pipeline that is being built by the TransCanada subsidiary company Coastal GasLink. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia are carrying out an…
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Commissioners: Margarette May Macaulay, Joel Hernández García, Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Antonia Urrejola Noguera Petitioners: Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH); Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) State: Honduras Topic: Honduras’ Implementation of Precautionary Measures…
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By Ridhi Shetty
The execution of a Filipina domestic worker in January is the latest in a long line of executions carried out by the Saudi Arabian government against domestic migrant workers mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia. The execution of the thirty-nine…
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By Ridhi Shetty
In Syria, there are no clear “winners” of the nearly eight-year war. As information makes its way out of the region from survivors, smugglers, activists, medical personnel, and journalists, it is evident that the atrocities are immeasurable. There is no…
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Commissioners: Margarette May Macaulay; Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño (not present); Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva (not present); Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli (Rapporteur for State of Colombia); Joel Hernández García; Antonia Urrejola Noguera; and Flávia Piovesan (not present) Other: Soledad García Muñoz (Special Rapporteur…
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By Ridhi Shetty
It is very difficult to be transgender in Japan, legally speaking. One must be at least twenty years old, unmarried, and without children under the age of twenty. One must undergo a psychiatric evaluation to receive a diagnosis of “Gender…
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