Human Rights

Addressing a Threat to the Future of Children: Climate Change
27 Feb

Addressing a Threat to the Future of Children: Climate Change

Ghislaine Fandel2019 – 2020, Newspaper, Social & Economic Rights

According to the World Health Organization, approximately eighty percent of the injuries, illnesses, and deaths resulting from climate change are in children. This stems from the increased presence of extreme weather events resulting from human-induced climate change such as droughts, floods, storms, and heatwaves that children are significantly more vulnerable too. These events directly affect people across the globe but it is the most blameless and innocent members of our communities who will suffer the greatest. For the first time in human history, we are in a state of climate emergency, requiring us to defend first and foremost those on the front line who are likely to suffer most from the effects of climate change: children.

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The Rohingya & Islamophobia: A Dire Situation
01 Nov

The Rohingya & Islamophobia: A Dire Situation

Ghayas Osseiran2019 – 2020, Asia, Civil & Political Rights, Collective & Developmental Rights, Newspaper

On August 31st, 2017, the lifeless husks of 9 women and 10 Rohingya refugees washed ashore the sands of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.1 Under dictatorial rule of the Myanmar army between 1962 and 2011, the Rohingya people of the Rakhine State have been handed a predicament of institutionalized oppression on the grounds of religious and ethnic discrimination. While these acts of terror are often justified by the supposed targeting of extremist subsets within the population, the scale and scope of these acts can only be regarded as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” says United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. 2

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