The discourse on affirmative action overwhelmingly emphasizes its controversial nature. However, its scope of potential benefits is often not adequately considered because the responses often exclusively highlight its impact on […]
Police take-overs of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, or shantytowns, were at the forefront of news coverage in 2011 as Brazil began to prepare for upcoming events such as the 2014 […]
The universal nature of human rights compels governments and people to be concerned with individuals and populations living under worse conditions beyond their own borders. International law imposes an obligation […]
In late September of this year, the UN released a report estimating that over 30 000 people have died as a consequence of the Syrian conflict, 300 000 refugees have […]
After eight long years, California voters passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday Nov. 6th, which will revise the state’s notorious Three Strike Law. The law passed with a landslide: 68.6 percent […]
The uprisings of the Arab spring sparked many transformations in the Middle East. One of these was the establishment of Egyptian military control over the government, after the toppling of […]
“Rack city bitch, rack rack city bitch”. You have heard it all summer on the radio, on TV. We may have thought the age of aggressive rap was on its […]
I’m watching the forecast for Hurricane Sandy halfway across the world and the weather map invariably shows a storm on the move. The clouds stewed briefly above the Caribbean, sure, […]
The United Nation General Assembly, in a move that has since been equated to one of the greatest achievements of the modern human rights movement, unanimously adopted The Universal Declaration of […]
Compared to the majority of other countries in the world, Canadian law is very inclusive of homosexual rights. In 1995, the Supreme Court of Canada read in sexual orientation to […]
