Emma Thompson           It has been nearly six months since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran, sparking a wave of anti-government protests that have continued to this day with no imminent signs of stopping. Amini had been arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory hijab rules. Following her death on September 16, 2022, … More Adaptability and Resilience: The Iranian Women’s Rights Movement

Radmila Yarovaya The male paradigm has served as the standard reference point for human experience throughout much of western history. Due to the narrowness of this perspective and the exclusion of women from the socio-legal sphere, men constructed a world in the image of themselves. This world upheld the power structures that kept men at … More Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Continued Infantilization of the Female Body

Radmila Yarovaya The legal framework provides one with a clear framework as to how to change unjust laws, represent one’s interests and push for societal change through individual cases. However, most can never take advantage of this as when they come face to face with the legal system, the ordinary citizen realizes that the law, … More Bias and its Benefits

Radmila Yarovaya Hands shaking and voice recorder turned on, I punched in the last few digits of a familiar number and waited for someone to pick up the phone. Without a doubt the Head of United Nations Development for South Sudan is a hard person to get a hold of, even if his daughter is … More Interview with Selvakumaran Ramachandran: Head of United Nations Development for South Sudan

There is a 708 kilometer long concrete barrier running through Bethlehem acting as the division between Israel and Palestine, with large towers every few meters filled with Israel soldiers monitoring the world down below. However, this line does not act in accordance with the official Green Line borders as articulated in 1967 in Resolution 242, … More The Wall: Human Rights in the West Bank (a photo essay)

Greg Kahn (b. 1981) is an American documentary fine art photographer. Kahn grew up in a small coastal town in Rhode Island, and attended The George Washington University in Washington D.C. In August of 2012, Kahn co-founded GRAIN Images with his wife Lexey, and colleague Tristan Spinski. Interview originally conducted in 2018. Photography and photojournalism have … More Interview with Greg Kahn: Human Rights & Photography

When you put your trust in people, they reciprocate. When hitchhiking, you are able to jump into people’s worlds for minutes to hours, (from 1km to 453km), learning about their families, jobs, politics. It is a deep dive, the absolute fastest way into learning about a new place. People are shocked that you are visiting … More Hitching through West Africa

Nabil Kalantar One of the primary challenges in securing and protecting the human rights of every member of the world’s population is that the concept of ‘universal human rights’ is often considered to be an expression of cultural imperialism, imposed by one part of the world on another, trampling self-determination and diversity (Binder, 1999). Numerous … More Human Rights, the Inherent Nobility of Human Nature, and Education

Azaad Sadiq The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the global economy, and several British companies have felt this impact. In the past few days, Debenhams has gone into administration, while Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin, has requested financial aid from the government. On the one hand, such a request is understandable, given that Virgin Atlantic forms … More All Take and No Give: Tax Avoidance as a Human Rights Violation

Max Hammer Across many sectors, the British government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has failed to inspire confidence. The problems reach far beyond the government’s initial “herd immunity” strategy, an approach that it dropped only after a report revealed that the policy would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths (Kelly, 2020). They can, in … More The COVID-19 Pandemic: London’s Responsibility to its Homeless Population