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On September 20, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Aliyev v. Azerbaijan against Azerbaijan for the unjust detention of lawyer and human rights advocate, Intigam Aliyev. Mr. Aliyev brought his case against Azerbaijan…
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Under Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the privacy of individuals is protected from interference and attacks. However, the advent and evolution of the internet has created…
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By Ridhi Shetty
On October 1, 2018, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its judgment in Bolivia’s case against Chile, rejecting Bolivia’s arguments that Chile had an obligation to negotiate sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean for Bolivia. Bolivia, a landlocked state…
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By Ridhi Shetty
Human trafficking is rising as more and more migrant women flee the political and economic crises in Venezuela, becoming vulnerable to sexual slavery. With a severely depleted job market, migrants are often lured by false promises of paid work and…
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By Ridhi Shetty
For many island nations, climate change is the biggest threat: the ocean has begun to swallow up peoples’ homes. Because of this, island nations in the Pacific have made considerable strides to combat rising sea levels and have been at…
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By Ridhi Shetty
The extraction of mineral resources has long been a prime motivation behind the colonial exploitation of developing nations, and this is no less the case today. The batteries that power our cellphones, computers, and emerging renewable energy technologies require cobalt…
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By Alex Smith
This past September, the leaders of Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru made history when they came together and took the unprecedented step of requesting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an investigation into Crimes Against Humanity (CAH)…
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By Ridhi Shetty
Having survived China’s biggest crackdown on religion during the Cultural Revolution, religious groups across China were only left with their battered selves and got used to living under the shadow of repression. Over the past two decades, the U.S. State…
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By Ridhi Shetty
Detainees endure torture and abuse in Yemen amid a lengthy and volatile civil war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Within a veiled system of eighteen prisons in southern Yemen, the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) and Yemeni officials are committing arbitrary…
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By Ridhi Shetty
Almost two months have passed since Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Arabia’s (SA) consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was a critic of the SA government, lived in self-exile in the United States, and wrote for the Washington…
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