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Comments/Middle East

In the Middle East, Some Human Rights Are More Equal than Others

Posted on January 2023 by Beckett Pechon-Elkins

On September 13, 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police. The accusation? Wearing her hijab in a way that made some of her hair vi...

Asia/Comments

Shifts in Shopping Sprees: Bans on Single-Use Plastic Bags in South Korea and the U.S.

Posted on December 2022 by Hailey Seo

Effective on January 1, 2019, South Korea had banned all single-use plastic bags from major supermarkets following a growing number of environmentally conscious...

Comments/Middle East

Invisible Women: What Happens When the Taliban Take Away Education’s ‘Visibility’ Superpower from Afghan Women

Posted on December 2022 by Lilia Chatalbasheva

An Unconventional Approach to US & UN Involvement in Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan. History repeats itself as on a normal school day, girls are sent back h...

Africa/Comments/Global Issue

International Criminal Court Addressing the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in 2022 Is it Too Late For Justice?

Posted on November 2022 by Eva Kottou

According to the International Criminal Court, genocide is an act led with a “specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial, or reli...

Comments/Middle East

A Bilingual Bourgeois: The Class Politics behind Morocco’s Language Debate

Posted on November 2022 by Beckett Pechon-Elkins

“Je ne connais pas l’arabe”—I don’t speak Arabic. While the former Moroccan education minister didn’t realize it at the time, these seemingly innocuous words wo...

Americas/Comments/Europe

Greenlanders’ Response to Climate Crisis Will Determine Island’s Independence and International Recognition

Posted on November 2022 by Maxwell Cota / 0 Comment

Global warming has made Greenland’s melting ice sheets the largest contributors to rising sea levels. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a majo...

Africa/Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe/Middle East

Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change

Posted on November 2022 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...

Comments

Will Lebanon Truly Overcome its Banking Crisis?

Posted on November 2022 by Layla Hedroug

“They want us to fight with the army? We are the army!” Hundreds of Lebanese veterans stormed the parliament, protesting for higher pensions. Lebanese security ...

Asia/Comments

How Russia Lost Its Grip on Central Asia

Posted on November 2022 by Owen Haywood

Russian President Vladimir Putin demonstrated with the invasion of Ukraine in February of this year that he will go to extreme lengths to preserve, even reinvig...

Asia/Comments

Covid-19 Policies in China and What it Means for the West

Posted on October 2022 by Yule Zhang (Arrow)

It is October 2022. Two and a half years after the start of the pandemic, China’s mandates in response to Covid-19 remain as extensive as ever.  Many count...

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