The #MeToo Movement : Investigating the Lasting International …
Jan 31, 2024 · Weaponized words are used to fix femininity into a narrative of fragility. In normative explanations of gender and expression, feminine expression is characterized as emotional, needy, and codependent.These are attributes that affirm fragility.
The Lithium Triangle: Where Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia Meet
Jan 15, 2020 · The lightest of metals may be causing the largest of impacts. Lithium, which powers our phones, laptops, and electric cars, is essential to our battery-driven world. The demand for lithium has rapidly increased, as the global market’s annual consumption has risen by 8.9 percent annually. This demand will only intensify as hybrid and electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and portable ...
The Death and Revival of Indigenous Languages
Jan 19, 2022 · Every two weeks, an Indigenous language dies.Some of the languages that have already disappeared were Inuit languages, spoken in the far reaches of the Arctic.
Building the (Fire) Wall: Internet Censorship in the United States …
Dec 28, 2020 · The newly instituted “Clean Network Initiative” in the United States strikes eerie parallels with China’s “Great Firewall,” leading to concerns about the state of internet freedom in the United States and abroad.
Cambodia’s Triumph and Tragedy: The UN’s Greatest Experiment …
Feb 13, 2023 · In 1991 Cambodia was a mess. Cambodia had spent centuries being stripped by a kleptocratic and Byzantine monarchy and then treated as an appendage to Vietnam by a disinterested French colonial system. But what little there was in 1970 was comprehensively destroyed over the next two decades. Nixon’s bombers, internal coups and power struggles, the genocidal insanity of the Khmer Rouge, and a ...
Public Health and Overpopulation: The United Nations Takes Action
Jun 20, 2022 · With the world’s population rising faster than ever before, will our population growth outpace our resource reserves? How can the dangerous effects of overpopulation be managed without diminishing the major improvements in our quality of life that come about thanks to population growth?
Compulsion Emboldens Democracy: A Deep-dive into Australia's …
Oct 2, 2023 · Australia is currently in the midst of deep political debate—Australia’s citizens are set to vote in a significant referendum near the end of 2023 to determine whether the constitution will be amended to include Indigenous voices.The importance of the issue is underlined by the voting policies established in Australia —people will have to voice their opinions.
Supervising Surveillance: International Law and the Surveillance State
Nov 11, 2020 · "A country surveilling its own citizens might be indirectly influenced by international standards, but the murkier problem of states surveilling non-citizens has the potential to be solved through the mechanisms of international institutions and law."
Near Extinction: Preserving Dying Languages - Harvard …
Aug 18, 2019 · Gina Kramer. Originally published in the HIR Winter/Spring 2000 Issue. Langue. Lengua. Lingua. Language. Expressed in any tongue, shared language fosters cultural identity and facilitates a sense of community among its speakers. However, the contribution of language to a local society often goes unnoticed until that language and its
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s "War on drugs"
Jun 9, 2017 · Phelim Kine is deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch in New York, where he supervises the organization’s work on Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. Kine is also an adjunct faculty member in the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College at the City University of New York.