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 […]
Averi Aya-ay, Associate Member, Immigration and Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has previously stated that the Remain in Mexico (RMX) program has “unjustifiable human costs” and “inherent problems…that no amount of resources can sufficiently fix.”[1] Since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, […]
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 […]
Olivia Martini, Associate Member, Immigration & Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction When a man raped his girlfriend’s thirteen-year-old daughter, the girl was faced with two choices to receive an abortion: she could either tell her mother or get a court order.[1] Being only thirteen, the girl felt that she […]
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 […]
Jasmyn Hardin, Associate Member, Immigration & Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Sex is a broad spectrum despite often being presented as a binary choice of male or female.[1] Approximately two percent of people worldwide and one in every 100 Americans have intersex traits.[2] People who are intersex have “reproductive […]
Carrington Calder, Associate Member, Immigration & Human Rights Law Review I. Introduction Hong Kong has operated under the “one country, two systems” policy since 1997, which guarantees greater freedoms and human rights for Hong Kong than those in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).[1] At the core of these freedoms […]