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…
Nicaragua has historically been regarded as one of the safest Central American nations. This is in part due to low levels of corruption and homicide coupled with the fact that unrest and violence in Nicaragua is not as pervasive as…
Among the myriad consequences of climate change is the threat posed by the increasing frequency of epidemics. Sub-Saharan Africa has proven especially susceptible to the new paradigm of climate-driven disease transmission, and while a global response to human-caused climate change…
The technological dystopia and the death of privacy described in contemporary science fiction is now a tangible reality for the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Having witnessed their homeland being turned into a place where virulent…