Opening the Umbrella Movement: A Pivotal Moment for Human Rights in Hong...
A citizen covers his face from police-fired tear gas in a single frame from an iPhone video taken on October 7 during Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement protests (User Pasu Au Yeung, Flickr Commons) Hong...
View ArticleSilver Linings: Assessing Afghan Women’s Agency in the 2014 Elections
Afghan women exhibited much greater political agency during the 2014 presidential election than ever before (User Global Panorama, courtesy Marius Arnesen, Flickr Commons) The number of women who...
View ArticleAssessing Progress, Anticipating Challenges: Afghanistan’s Hopes for the New...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (far left) pictured alongside newly elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, and Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah, right, at the United Nations...
View ArticleJe Suis a Defender of Freedoms: Why Democracies Need Freedom of Religion, Not...
Stéphane Charbonnier (“Charb”), who was killed on January 7 when a pair of gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine of which he was editor (User thierry ehrmann, Flickr...
View ArticleBeyond Humanitarian Triage: Why President Obama’s Executive Action on...
U.S. President Barack Obama, pictured during a 2011 visit to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas (User DVIDSHUB, Flickr Commons) Much of the reaction to President Obama’s recently announced strategy on...
View ArticleFacilitating Legal Migration: The Challenge of Somali Statelessness
A disabled skiff containing 52 Somali migrants viewed from aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain in the Gulf of Aden, 24 May 2009 (Wikimedia Commons) The collapse of the state of Somalia...
View ArticleEnsuring Human Dignity in Chocó: The Humanitarian Task on Colombia’s...
(colombiareports.co) For Juana, one survivor of a 2002 massacre perpetrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the town of Bojayá, watching Colombian news reinforces a sense of...
View ArticleUnder the World’s Eye : The Case of the Rohingya
(EU/ECHO/Pierre Prakash, Flickr Commons) As the world watches boatloads of desperate people slowly drifting over treacherous waters from Burma toward Malaysia, the heated debate over how to address the...
View ArticleBrain Gain: The Emerging Security and Ethical Challenges of Cognitive...
(Kuba Bożanowski, Flickr Commons) The radically accelerating development of emerging strategic technologies (ESTs) poses important questions for the future of human societies. On the one hand, ESTs...
View ArticleUnaccompanied Children and the U.S. Immigration System: Learning to Compensate
(EdmondMeinfelder, Flickr Commons) The summer of 2014 saw a record arrival of 51,705 unaccompanied children (UAC) from Central America attempting to enter the United States. By comparison, 10,146 and...
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