A Changing of the Guard
Myanmar Navigates the Transition from Junta to Democracy By Nicolas Jimenez If you ask residents in Myanmar today about the new president, they will respond with blank stares and inquiring shrugs. As...
View ArticleSoundbites from North Korean Refugees
Reflections from a trip to Seoul, South Korea By Annie Cheng hroughout the week, our Yale International Relations Association (YIRA) sponsored group met with numerous people with incredible stories:...
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Alternative Spaces in Birmingham, Alabama By Olivia Burton ey y’all. I ain’t got shit to say except f**k Nazis and eat more cornbread.” On January 19, Michael Harp was writing the weekly newsletter...
View ArticleA Funeral, Over Six Decades Late
By Elizabeth Miles n August 5th, 2016, I took a road trip to a tourist town for Catholic pilgrims, to attend the funeral of two people I had never met. Almost no one in attendance had. The two had died...
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Corruption and Human Rights By Veronica Lira Ortiz orruption is undeniably one of the world’s largest problems. The last couple of years have been marked by the release of large amounts of data on...
View ArticleProtesting Students Attacked by Police and State-Sponsored Goons in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh By Anonymous Content Warning: This article contains graphic language of violence, rape, and sexual assault. unday, July 29th, 2018 started off like any other day for commuting...
View ArticleProtecting Economic Interests or Human Rights?: The International Community’s...
by Sarah McKinnis t has been over five weeks since the disappearance and subsequent murder of prominent Saudi critic and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, yet the global community is still hesitant to hold...
View ArticleInjustice in the Island Kingdom: Torture and Mistreatment in Bahraini Prisons
Warning: Some of the descriptions of torture in the following article are graphic and include details relating to sexual violence. By Qusay Omran omething is rotten in the kingdom of Bahrain. In the...
View ArticleBreaking the Silence on Kashmir: Finding Humanity in the Midst of Tragic...
Featured Image: Kashmir’s natural beauty captivated the Mughal emperor Jahangir, who built these gardens, known as the Shalimar Bagh, for his wife in 1619. But the past seven decades have seen its...
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