As discussed in previous blogs within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (“MMIW”) series, Native women face murder rates at more than ten times the national average, and 96% of these women experienced violence from a non-Native perpetrator.[1] Under current legal precedent, the federal government is responsible for investigating and […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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The United States has long employed tactics of family separation in order to dissuade immigrants from undertaking the treacherous journey across the southern border. Prior to the Trump administration, families were generally paroled into the United States to wait for their immigration cases to be processed or the families were […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Canada and Charges of Genocide For the last 30 years over 4,000 Indigenous women and girls are believed to have been killed or gone missing in Canada.[1] However, the true number of victims is unknown. During his election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to investigate […]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Ashley Loring Heavyrunner and Jurisdictional Inadequacies Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (“MMIW”) is now recognized as a public health and human rights crisis.[1] The case of Ashely Loring Heavyrunner underscores the critical issue contributing to the crisis: jurisdictional barriers. There is no single database that […]
Section One of the Fifteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution plainly states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”[1] However, U.S. citizens with […]
The United States has a controversial history with immigration. For one, the United States is mythologized as a nation of immigrants—with the exception of Native Americans. However, since the country’s founding, Congress has passed, and the Supreme Court has upheld, statutes excluding certain groups of people from immigrating to the […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing his best to restrict human rights and what the term “human rights” means; in the summer of 2020, he said: “Americans have not only unalienable rights, but also positive rights, rights granted by governments, courts, multilateral bodies. Many are worth defending in light […]