Consequential Human Rights Diplomacy Knox Thames[*] Visiting the U.S. Holocaust Museum with a Rohingya Muslim activist brings the reality of 21st century persecution into stark relief. I experienced this when touring with Wai Wai Nu, a brave young woman we had brought to the State Department in 2019 to share about her imprisonment in […]
Case Comment: Atamanchuk v. Russia (Application No. 4493/11) Stephanie Wayne Tung Tai[*] Circumstances of the Case On March 1, 2008, a local Russian newspaper with a circulation of approximately 10,000 published an article written by the Applicant titled “Why I will not vote in these elections” (“the Article”). The contents of the Article included
#EndSARS: The Movement Against Police Brutality in Nigeria Allwell Uwazuruike[*] Since the start of October, demonstrators in the thousands have thronged Nigerian cities, calling for an end to police brutality in the country and demanding justice for victims of police violence and extrajudicial killings. The #EndSARS protests have elicited global sympathy and support, with
Rule by Executive Decree: Constitutional Concerns in India Prashant Khurana & Parth Maniktala[*] COVID-19 has spawned contact tracing efforts, thereby triggering the collection and processing of sensitive personal data across the world.[1] Legal protections surrounding this large-scale data collection are predominantly nascent, raising significant concerns about the precedent this sets for data privacy. In
Can Afghanistan Accept Amnesties for War Crimes in Peace Talks with the Taliban? Samantha Gogol Lint[*] After six months of delays, the Afghan government and the Taliban have begun peace talks in Doha, Qatar.[1] The negotiations follow an initial agreement between the United States and the Taliban created in February 2020,[2] to which the
The Future of the Right to Health is National Diya Uberoi[*] Around the world, the enforcement of long-discussed and even ratified treaties and agreements remains weak. Despite this, some policymakers and scholars remain hopeful that more binding international norms (or “soft law”) will increase solidarity amongst states under international legal regimes. For example, in
The Real War On Drugs: The United States’ Perpetration of Human Rights Violations by Denying PrEP Drugs to At-Risk Individuals Hadley Day* While the HIV/AIDS crisis is currently out of the news cycle, there are still approximately 38,000[1] new cases and 15,000 deaths[2] in the United States each year. The only known way to
Remarks Before the Commission on Unalienable Rights Martha Minow* Please accept my thanks for the invitation to speak with you and for your service on this important effort. Grappling with the meaning and implications of human rights is a task that no one generation can complete; comprehension, validation, and commitment require investment of renewing
The National Anthem Law in China: Human Rights Concerns and Justifications Martin Kwan* The National Anthem Law (the “Law”) came into force in China on 1 October 2017.[1] This article seeks to explore how Anglo-American perspectives might consider the Law to implicate potential human rights issues. The Law is a valuable illustration of the
