Children’s Rights and Voting Age Discrimination John Wall[*] International and national laws rarely refer explicitly to age discrimination, and even when they do, they typically focus on age discrimination against the elderly, not the young. Even the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), one of whose foundational principles in article 2 is prohibition […]
Minimum Age Cutoffs and the Fair Allocation of Benefits Govind Persad[*] The COVID-19 pandemic brought debates over the use of age in scarce resource allocation to the fore once again. Initially, particularly in developed countries, debates surrounded the use of older age as an exclusion or lower-priority criterion for receipt of scarce medical interventions such
The Sword is Mightier than the Pen: The Precedence of Facts on the Ground over the Written Ceasefire Agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh Stanisław Krawiecki[*] Introduction “Armed hostilities ended on 10 November 2020.”[1] That’s one of the first assertions made by Armenia in its International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) case against Azerbaijan for violation of the Convention
Intersex Intervention: A Health and Human Rights Perspective Amy Frieder[*] Introduction As worldwide awareness advances acceptance for people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and as consent education grows in global movements against sexual assault, a group of people often left out of both the LGBTQ acronym and conversations about consent deserve concern: intersex
The following piece was selected as the winner of the Harvard Human Rights Journal’s Winter 2022 Essay Contest. Applying Historical Institutionalism to the Analysis of Regional Organizations: The Case of ASEAN Ariq Hatibie[*] Introduction February 1, 2022 marked the one-year anniversary of the Myanmar coup, which saw the military violently wresting power from the civilian
From Flores to Title 42: Unaccompanied Children in Detention Ennely Medina* I. Introduction Following the CDC’s declaration of a global COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration quickly reacted by enacting Title 42, a policy that permits the expulsion of migrants, including asylum-seeking unaccompanied children, without asylum screenings at the border. As immigration advocates highlight, Title 42
The Afghan Humanitarian Crisis and Ireland’s Visa Policy: Swift Executive Action Required to Facilitate Safe Departure James McGovern* Introduction On August 19, 2021, the agency responsible for the control of immigration in Ireland—the Immigration Service Delivery (under the guise of the Department of Justice)—announced that “[i]n response to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the Department
Léon Mugesera: A Convicted Genocidaire Seeking Justice before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights? Mando Rachovitsa[*] I. Introduction This Article discusses the Léon Mugesera v. Republic of Rwanda judgment issued by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR), in November 2020, concerning Léon Mugesera, a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda.[1] In 2016,
After/Lives: Rethinking Moment of Death Content on Social Media Platforms Amre Metwally* Introduction Neda Agha-Soltan was protesting in Iran’s 2009 elections when police fatally shot her. A bystander recorded and uploaded the final, brutal moments of her life to YouTube when, at that time, company leadership decided to preserve the video on the platform. Though
