The extraction of mineral resources has long been a prime motivation behind the colonial exploitation of developing nations, and this is no less the case today. The batteries that power our cellphones, computers, and emerging renewable energy technologies require cobalt…
This past September, the leaders of Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru made history when they came together and took the unprecedented step of requesting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an investigation into Crimes Against Humanity (CAH)…
Having survived China’s biggest crackdown on religion during the Cultural Revolution, religious groups across China were only left with their battered selves and got used to living under the shadow of repression. Over the past two decades, the U.S. State…
Detainees endure torture and abuse in Yemen amid a lengthy and volatile civil war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Within a veiled system of eighteen prisons in southern Yemen, the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) and Yemeni officials are committing arbitrary…
Almost two months have passed since Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Arabia’s (SA) consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was a critic of the SA government, lived in self-exile in the United States, and wrote for the Washington…