Drought or Deception: Mexico’s Dubious National Water Emergency
Scarcity or plunder? My family has been affected by the worst national drought in a decade. My grandmother, who lives in Mexico City, went from having everyday ...
Tag: human rights
Populist Backlashes Against the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Exit, Voice, or Disloyalty?
International human rights institutions, regardless of time or place, have long faced resistance from various governments. It’s no different in the context of t...
Crime of Passion or Lie to the Nation: The murder of non-binary Mexican Magistrate Ociel Baena
“There is nothing else to say… it was a crime of passion.” Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo, the first openly non-binary magistrate in Latin America, was found murdere...
A Diaspora Dilemma: The Separatist Movement Affecting Relations between India, Canada, and the United States
In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an announcement that sent shockwaves through international politics: he accused the government of Indi...
Sweden’s NATO Bid and Turkey-Kurdish Relations
Powerful organizations of world leaders rarely let new members into their ranks. On October 23, 2023, Turkey—a member of NATO since 1952—submitted Sweden’s bid ...
Invisible Children: How the media has failed to draw attention to one of Russia’s most pernicious war tactics
This essay won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current ...
Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Implications for Freedom of Political Communication
As part of the backlash against the Australian government’s deliberation over whether Facebook should pay media outlets to use their news content in February th...
How Economic Incentives Undermine Human Rights Diplomacy in EU-China Relations
On December 30, 2020, the European Union (EU) and China announced that they concluded the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), a long-awaited deal that ...
The Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: Why the Supreme Court is Moving Away from Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses Abroad
Introduction In 2003, a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb while on board a bus in Haifa. This event was part of a larger series of attacks against Israelis — a...
Samantha Power Revisits Yale
Written by: Samantha Larkin By one o’clock, a dozen students had already taken the most coveted seats in Yale Law School’s Levinson Hall. Soon to be joined by c...