Sierra Leone and Senegal Heads of State Visit Yale
Africa, as home to some of the youngest nation-states globally, a rapidly growing[1] and urbanising[2] population, is a continent home to a diverse array of cha...
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Campus Report on Andrew Song’s Talk: “Soldiers for Sale”
As part of the Global Perspectives Society’s Student Speaker Series, YRIS editor and Naval ROTC cadet Andrew Song gave a talk on the rise of military contractor...
Facing Mirrors: A Film about Transgender Rights in Iran
Written by Ariana Habibi On February 22, 2019, The Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center hosted a screening of Facing Mirrors (آینه های روبرو) , ...
Review: “Democracy and Dissent”
Written by Mary Orsak On April 6, over 50 students and alumni protested University President Peter Salovey during his speech honoring 50 years of Asian American...
Nadia Murad and the Yazidi Genocide
Written by Leila Iskandarani On Thursday, April 18, the Genocide Studies Program at the Macmillan Center hosted Nadia Murad, a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate a...
The Jangmadang Generation: Change in North Korea Begins with the Youth
Written by Brandon Lu On April 11th, 2019, ThiNK at Yale (There’s Hope in North Korea) hosted a screening of The Jangmadang Generation, a documentary by Liberty...
The Rise of Multilateral Externalization: How the International System fails Refugees
Written by Leila Iskandarani On Friday, April 5, the Yale Law School hosted a panel discussing the rise of multilateralism as states seek to evade their legal o...
Building Utility Infrastructure to Support Palestinians in the West Bank
Written by Katrina Starbird Asmahan Simry, Palestinian citizen of Israel and human rights activist focused on the treatment of Palestinians, introduced her huma...
Challenges Ahead for Chinese-Canadian Camaraderie: A Discussion with Yale China In Focus
Written by Coco Chai Yale China In Focus, a student-run independent, non-profit organization on campus, held a roundtable discussion on the current issues regar...
Ending the War in Yemen: How Citizens, the United States, and the World Can Help
Written by Alayna Lee After three years of conflict, the war in Yemen has not shown any signs of stopping, and it has turned into one of the most severe h...