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Protecting the Dignity of Documented Guest Workers
Image: Dylan Otto Krider. There was a sea change in the State Department’s anti-human trafficking office when I was its director and chief envoy from 2007 to 2009. The changes lie in the perceived...
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Dignity Denied: North Korean Atrocities Revealed
On September 17, 2013, Michael Donald Kirby, Chairperson the Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea presented to the 24th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.Image:...
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The ‘Failed State’ Fever Must Break
World map coloring states according to the Failed State Index 2013: Alert (Red), Warning (Orange), Stable (Yellow), and Sustainable (Green). It is said that leaders are bound to fight the last war. The...
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President Obama: Recognize the Armenian Genocide
Protesters outside the Turkish Embassy exhort President Obama to recognize the Armenian Genocide, 98 years after the massacre occurred (Flickr Commons) It is time for Mr. Obama to fulfill his promise...
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Bangladesh: Democracy Under Attack
Image: Mehdi Hasan Khan. The future of Bangladesh is at a critical juncture. Gross injustices and human rights violations have engulfed the people of Bangladesh, led by the ruling Awami League. Under...
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Protect Undocumented Children: Preserve the Wilberforce Law
Undocumented children held in a cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Brownsville, Texas (NBC) The humanitarian crisis currently unfolding on the southwestern border of the United...
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The Constraints of Pragmatism: Iran’s Stalled Gender Agenda
(© Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, Flickr Commons) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, not unlike any presidential candidate would, made many campaign promises in the run-up to the June 2013 Iranian election....
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Combating the Illegal Wildlife Trade: An Opportunity for Community Empowerment
Chief Olepello of Northern Tanzania, a community leader reducing conflict with lions through installation of lion-proof bomas (photo courtesy of Mike Skuja) It is a well-established fact that the...
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Tension, Repression, and Discrimination: China’s Uyghurs Under Threat
(User Gusjur, Flickr Commons) Despite the official stance of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which nominally recognizes the Uyghur people as equal citizens, Uyghur Muslims have always had a...
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Legalizing Prostitution: Why The Economist Gets it Wrong
A mural in Lindavista, Distrito Federal, Mexico, depicting a prostitute and a priest (User Tinou Bao, Flickr Commons) The cover article for the August 9th issue of The Economist argues that...
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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...
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Silver 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...
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Assessing 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...
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Je 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...
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Beyond 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...
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Facilitating 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...
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Ensuring 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...
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Under 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...
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Brain 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...
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Unaccompanied 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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