Meredith Mast, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Following weeks of speculation and reporting on interagency negotiations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has entered into an unprecedented information-sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.[1] The agreement stems from […]
Human Rights
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Olivia Martini, Associate Member, Immigration & Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a landmark treaty designed to protect the civil, political, economic, and social rights of children.[1] […]
Molly Baker, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review Introduction A staggering sixty-five percent of women in Ghana report that they have been victims of obstetric violence.[1] Obstetric violence is characterized as abusive medical treatment toward people at any stage of pregnancy or those seeking sexual and reproductive health […]
Will Gronefeld, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Cervical cancer is the fourth most-common cancer among women worldwide.[1] Uganda has the seventh highest incidence rate of cervical cancer globally, with around 7,000 new cases each year.[2] Eighty percent of these cases are diagnosed at an advanced […]
Molly Baker, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction About half of the 246,000 refugee children in Egypt are not receiving an education.[1] This blog discusses how Egypt’s failure to provide adequate education to refugee children violates the human right to a free and compulsory primary education […]
Meredith Mast, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Rachel Barkman’s son was only two years old when he began correctly identifying different types of mushrooms.[1] As Rachel and her son took foraging walks through the nearby Vancouver woods, Rachel would occasionally record and upload videos to […]
Olivia Martini, Associate Member, Immigration & Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction The sun rises over the desert of Northern Nevada, casting long shadows over the hills of Thacker Pass. For the Paiute and Shoshone peoples, this land is sacred ground, a site of commemoration and mourning.[1] In 1865, Nevadan […]
Meredith Mast, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction From facility maintenance to natural disaster relief, prison labor is deeply embedded in various sectors of the American economy.[1] Prison programs are frequently marketed as opportunities for post-release preparedness and rehabilitation.[2] However, the inherently punitive nature of prison […]
Will Gronefeld, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction In 2023, sixty-four United Nations (U.N.) member states considered it a crime to be a member of the LGBTQI+ community.[1] Since 1951, international law has protected the rights of individuals within persecuted social groups to seek refuge.[2] The […]
Molly Baker, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Between March 2017 and the end of 2019, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) officials forcibly separated an estimated 4,656 immigrant children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexico border.[1] These forcible family separations were the result of a policy that […]