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Restorative Justice: Uplifting Human Rights For The Marginalized, Vulnerable, Victimized, And The United States As A Whole, Meghana Vodela Jan 2022

Restorative Justice: Uplifting Human Rights For The Marginalized, Vulnerable, Victimized, And The United States As A Whole, Meghana Vodela

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


How The Many Recent Deaths Of Malaysian Citizens Expose The Country's Corrupt Police System, Amy P. Lyons Jan 2022

How The Many Recent Deaths Of Malaysian Citizens Expose The Country's Corrupt Police System, Amy P. Lyons

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Consulting With Consuls: Virgilio Maldonado Rodríguez And The Right Of Consular Access, Fabian Kopp Jan 2022

Consulting With Consuls: Virgilio Maldonado Rodríguez And The Right Of Consular Access, Fabian Kopp

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Escaping Accountability: Ice Forcibly Sterilizes Detainees In Detention Centers, Mehraz Rahman Jan 2022

Escaping Accountability: Ice Forcibly Sterilizes Detainees In Detention Centers, Mehraz Rahman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Romanian Government Will Implement Measures To Prevent Further Violations Of Rightsof People With Mental Health Conditions Or Disabilities In Accord With The Decision Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Tesa Hargis Jan 2022

Romanian Government Will Implement Measures To Prevent Further Violations Of Rightsof People With Mental Health Conditions Or Disabilities In Accord With The Decision Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Tesa Hargis

Human Rights Brief

On June 21 and 22, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Romania discussed reform measures based on various judgements delivered during the nine-year period between 2012 and 2021. At issue before the ECtHR’s Department for Execution of Judgments was insufficient legal protection, lack of medical and social care, deficiencies in the legal framework governing involuntary placement, inadequate management of psychiatric conditions of detainees, and overcrowding and poor conditions in Romanian mental health facilities.


Letter From The Editors, Madison Bingle, Nora Elmubarak Jan 2022

Letter From The Editors, Madison Bingle, Nora Elmubarak

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Invasion Of Ukraine: A Gross Violation Of International Law, Claudio Grossman Jan 2022

The Invasion Of Ukraine: A Gross Violation Of International Law, Claudio Grossman

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Washington, D.C.: The Capital Of Fair Housing Act Violations, Arielle Aboulafia Jan 2022

Washington, D.C.: The Capital Of Fair Housing Act Violations, Arielle Aboulafia

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Gap In Internet Access In Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights, Gracie Kreth Jan 2022

Gap In Internet Access In Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights, Gracie Kreth

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Gender Discrimination And Wrongful Termination During The Covid-19 Pandemic And The Age Of The At-Home Workplace, Lauren Saxe Jan 2022

Gender Discrimination And Wrongful Termination During The Covid-19 Pandemic And The Age Of The At-Home Workplace, Lauren Saxe

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Oil Multinationals And The Fight For Sustainability In Nigeria's Niger Delta, Andre Taylor Jan 2022

Oil Multinationals And The Fight For Sustainability In Nigeria's Niger Delta, Andre Taylor

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Protections Against Inhuman Punishment Fail Migrants With Mental Illnesses In Europe, Hannah Friedrich Jan 2022

Protections Against Inhuman Punishment Fail Migrants With Mental Illnesses In Europe, Hannah Friedrich

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Issues Of Surveillance In Bulgaria: Violation Of Article 8 Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Danya Hamad Jan 2022

Issues Of Surveillance In Bulgaria: Violation Of Article 8 Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Danya Hamad

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Reimagining The Refugee & Asylee Experience Through Law: Exploring U.S. Culpability And (Un) Exceptionalism, Thea Cabrera Montejo, Angela Altieri, Katherine Pratty, Alexandra Curbelo Jan 2022

Reimagining The Refugee & Asylee Experience Through Law: Exploring U.S. Culpability And (Un) Exceptionalism, Thea Cabrera Montejo, Angela Altieri, Katherine Pratty, Alexandra Curbelo

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Filling The Protection Gaps For Climate Change And Disaster-Induced Migrants, Kimberly A. Erickson Jan 2022

Filling The Protection Gaps For Climate Change And Disaster-Induced Migrants, Kimberly A. Erickson

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Unrepeatable Harms: Forced Sterilization At Ice Detention Centers, Sabrina Davis Jan 2022

Unrepeatable Harms: Forced Sterilization At Ice Detention Centers, Sabrina Davis

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


A Particular Social Group: The Inadequacy Of U.S. Asylum Laws For Transgender Claimants, Marnie Leonard Jan 2022

A Particular Social Group: The Inadequacy Of U.S. Asylum Laws For Transgender Claimants, Marnie Leonard

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Capital Punishment And The ‘Acnestis’ Of Its Modern Reformation, Sudarsanan Sivakumar Jan 2022

Capital Punishment And The ‘Acnestis’ Of Its Modern Reformation, Sudarsanan Sivakumar

Human Rights Brief

The term “Capital Punishment” encompasses any penalizing punishment that results in the death of people accused of committing a crime.1 This damnation dates back to the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the “Code of Hammurabi,” a misemployed code that ensured the death penalty for twenty-five distinct crimes. People convicted of crimes were made to suffer for their actions in horrific ways, including being burnt alive and drowning.2 Since then, death by hanging has been the conventional method for capital punishment in most of the world.


When Jail & Prison Sentences Become Death Sentences: How Willfully Exposing Incarcerated Persons To Covid-19 Amounts To Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Arielle Aboulafia Jan 2022

When Jail & Prison Sentences Become Death Sentences: How Willfully Exposing Incarcerated Persons To Covid-19 Amounts To Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Arielle Aboulafia

Human Rights Brief

Eric Warner called his older brother Hank from San Quentin State Prison almost every Sunday. Though the prison only allowed the brothers to speak for fifteen minutes each week, the two spoke about their lives. In June 2021, Eric stopped calling, and Hank became worried. Hank tried to get in touch with the prison. However, his calls were met with a dead-end voicemail each time. He recalls that he “knew, by not hearing anything, that something was not good.” The following month, prison personnel returned Hank’s calls and told him that his brother Eric had been hospitalized. Later that month, …


The Right To Assembly Should Extend Online In China, Gracie Kreth Jan 2022

The Right To Assembly Should Extend Online In China, Gracie Kreth

Human Rights Brief

Peng Shuai, China’s star tennis player, logged onto the Chinese social media platform Weibo in November 2021 and posted a description of her relationship with Zhang Gaoli, a powerful Chinese leader and former Vice Premier of China. Shuai alleged in her post that after a consensual relationship with Gaoli, he sexually assaulted her. She described her feelings from the trauma and the suicidal thoughts that followed. Within minutes, the Chinese government scrubbed the post from the internet — but it was still quick to spread, battling the “Great Firewall.” Shuai’s profile essentially disappeared online; along with Shuai in the real …


The Peace Corps Is Failing To Keep Volunteers Safe, Marnie Leonard Jan 2022

The Peace Corps Is Failing To Keep Volunteers Safe, Marnie Leonard

Human Rights Brief

Nicole Jacobson, an American Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in a Zambian village, was “far from home and feeling alone” when the father of the host family that the Peace Corps (“the agency”) placed her with sexually assaulted her. Jacobson reported the assault to Peace Corps staff, who told her it was a cultural misunderstanding and kept Jacobson at the site for more than a year before allowing her to leave in 2018. Unfortunately, Jacobson’s story is not unique. In fact, she is one of many Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who have come forward in recent years to share stories …


Brazil’S Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, Andre Taylor Jan 2022

Brazil’S Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, Andre Taylor

Human Rights Brief

Centuries of violence and displacement define the relationship between indigenous peoples and the successive governments of Brazil. As Brazil embarks on a massive expansion of its agribusiness and mining operations, the systemic denial of land rights and illegal economic activity on protected lands has threatened traditional ways of life practiced by indigenous peoples. The most aggressive policy taken by the Brazilian government has involved legitimizing land claims on unregistered ancestral indigenous lands for development, putting 37,800 square miles of territory at risk for exploitation by loggers, ranchers, and farmers.


Chocholáčv. Slovakia: Prisoners, Porn, & Morality In Human Rights, Amanda Lorenzo Jan 2022

Chocholáčv. Slovakia: Prisoners, Porn, & Morality In Human Rights, Amanda Lorenzo

Human Rights Brief

Chocholáč v. Slovakia asks whether Slovakia’s disciplinary actions against a prisoner in possession of concealed pornographic materials violated the European Convention of Human Rights (“the Convention”). Roman Chocholáč, a thirtythree-year-old currently serving a life sentence in Leopoldov prison was found possessing a “popular weekly magazine” with sexually-explicit pictures pasted inside. The State deemed the added material a threat to morality and prison staff confiscated it. On November 21, 2017, Chocholáč v. Slovakia was brought to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), presenting legal questions under Slovakia’s Criminal Code and Execution of Prison Sentences Act, as well as Articles 8 …


Overcoming The Westphalian Notion Of "Absolute Sovereignty": The Venezuelan Case With The Inter-American Convention Of Human Rights, Gabriel Ortiz Jan 2022

Overcoming The Westphalian Notion Of "Absolute Sovereignty": The Venezuelan Case With The Inter-American Convention Of Human Rights, Gabriel Ortiz

Human Rights Brief

In 2012, Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez withdrew from the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR or “the Convention”). He presented a letter issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs before the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS). The denunciation became effective in 2013. Thereafter, no one could petition before the Inter-American Commission or the Inter-American Court (IACHR) to hold Venezuela accountable for human rights violations. Meanwhile, between 2014 and 2019, the government’s armed groups have killed more than 19,000 people.