Reproductive violence has “traditionally been ignored” by the international community at large when discussing one’s rights to bodily autonomy.[1] While movements against sexual violence have become more common in recent years, reproductive violence has not gotten the same attention.[2] Reproductive violence can occur as “forced contraception, sterilization and forced abortions” […]
Human Rights
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At the beginning of this year, New York state legislators proposed the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (“Fashion Act”).[1] The bill represents a first-of-its-kind type of legislation within the United States which seeks to reign in and hold accountable some of the fashion industry’s biggest brands for their role […]
“I asked almost everyone I interviewed…about their regrets, but…[t]hat’s not what we’ll remember when we have to leave, by choice, force, or casket.”[1] Karla Cornejo Villavicencio came to the United States without documentation at age 5, attended Harvard University, pursued her PhD at Yale, and wrote for major newspapers and […]
The world brings people from different nations together “at the same time, in the same place, in the spirit of friendly competition,” for the largest sporting celebration in the world – the Olympic Games.[1] However, the Olympic Games are rarely without controversy, and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are no […]
In September of 2021, Netflix original series “Squid Games” became a worldwide sensation in both viewership and ratings.[1] “Squid Games” is a South Korean dystopian thriller television series that explores many complex topics such as class relations, exploitation, and forced organ harvesting.[2] While this show is purely fictional, the depiction […]
Foreword This short article seeks to briefly educate readers on the prevalence and manifestations of violence against women with disabilities and expound upon the existing legal frameworks that address this human rights issue. However, given the page limitations placed upon the article, it is necessary to preface that there are […]
Eva was only 15 years old when she went missing in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[1] However, her story started years prior to her disappearance. In December of 2015, when Eva was just 13 years old, Eva received a Facebook message from a young man who claimed to know her from school.[2] […]
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 […]
While more and more countries are taking steps to ensure that women have basic human rights, multiple states in the United States are taking a step back. The right for a woman to terminate her pregnancy has become an internationally recognized human right among nations and international organizations.[1] Eighty-seven percent […]
In the summer of 2019, an annual music and arts festival held in Byblos, Lebanon, cancelled a concert by the band Mashrou’ Leila, whose vocalist is openly gay, on the heels of an escalating campaign by Christian groups that demanded the concert’s cancellation.[1] The cancellation stemmed from claims that “the […]