Background The Special Rapporteur’s next report will explore challenges, latest developments and best practices concerning the identification, documentation, investigation and prosecution of crimes of sexual torture and other related cruel, inhuman…
Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, It pains me to start my Global Update to this Council, once again, with the cruelty of war. Last March, I spoke of the right…
Meilan Solly The celebration commemorates June 19, 1865, when a military decree informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were free In June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill…
Larry MadowoArcher’s Post, Kenya CNN — normal Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and…
CHIHUAHUA, México (AP) — Miguel Lara was born to run. It’s in his blood, his people’s history and tied to the land he calls “home.” “That’s what we do,” said…
The southern and western subpopulations are on track to disappear as sea ice becomes too thin amid rising global temperatures Sarah KutaJune 17, 2024 4:13 p.m. The polar bears living in Canada’s Hudson…
A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western expansion For thousands of years, Indigenous people inhabited and relied on the natural resources of the area…
Large-scale community-wide interventions to address opioid overdose deaths can be difficult to implement and require sustained effort before positive results are seen. That’s one of the lessons from a large…
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.…
Anonymous JUNE 17, 2024 09:38:16 PM Edited by: JURIST Staff The author, an anonymous Afghan legal scholar, argues that the international community must do more to help refugees fleeing Taliban rule...…