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Author: Ioana Podarita August 13, 2026 Vladimir Putin [Image source: Wikimedia Commons] On May 29th, a Russian drone hit a residential building in Galati, Romania, injuring two civilians. Romania’s President Dan has stated the drone was probably part of the Russian attack on Ukraine, whose air defences likely altered the drone’s trajectory and caused it to hit the eastern Romanian city. Russia’s “reckless” escalation was condemned by the international community, with US Ambas

Author: Anonymous August 12, 2026 Cuban protesters at the White House [Image credit: Joe Flood/Flikr] Cuba is facing a rising human rights crisis due to its long-standing political repression, U.S. economic sanctions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent cuts on Venezuelan oil supplies. These challenges together have caused a substantial economic crisis characterized by continuous economic decline, severe supply-chain disruptions, shortages of food and medicines, and worsening b

Author: Elizabeth Bruins August 11, 2026 President Trump with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa [Image credit: Wikicommons Media] Introduction Upon his inauguration in January 2025, President Donald Trump promptly used the power of executive order to close as many humanitarian migration methods to the United States as possible, including refugee admissions. While initially it was presented as a short-term pause of the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), humani

Author: Mia Baxley August 6, 2026 Chief Kevin Brown of the Pamunkey Tribe, center, is blessed with an honor song during the New Day Now rally at the U.S. Capitol on June 16, 2015. [Image credit: Indianz.com] The United States Federal government has had a complex and fraught relationship with America’s Indigenous peoples. US-Indigenous diplomacy has historically alternated between attacks on Tribal sovereignty and attempts to address previous harms caused by the US’s genocidal

Author: Adia May August 5, 2026 [Image credit: Geri Tech/Pexels] Social media is a central space where political polarisation is encountered, reproduced, and circulated in the U.S. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and X are no longer sites designed for personal communication (Egan, 2026). They double as political information systems, having a hand in what users see, what they believe, and which voices are made visible in public debate (Liedke and S

Author: Nadia Nasri August 4, 2026 [Image credit: Katrin Bolovtsova via Pexels] One of the most long-standing human rights issues is the violence subjected against women and girls (WHO, 2025). It continues to permeate our world, with progress to reduce the incidence of it remaining stagnant, evidenced by the data reports from the World Health Organization between 2000 and 2023. It is estimated that 1 in 3 women globally has endured sexual or partner violence (WHO, 2025). This

Author: Danielle Castrano July 31, 2026 Federal agents detain a woman who is nine months pregnant after she exited a hearing in immigration court in New York on September 11, 2025. [Image credit: Michael Nigro/LightRocket via Getty Images] Background of the Problem President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation in U.S. history during his presidential campaign. As of December 19th, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported 622,000 noncitizens had b

Author: Snigdha Behara July 30, 2026 Farmers in rural India [Image credit: EqualStock/Unsplash] INTRODUCTION In India, around 150 million people require mental health care, with fewer than 30 mental health professionals per million people (Mathur, Chawla, & Chadda, 2024). This suggests a fundamental structural mismatch. There is a notable gap between the way mental distress is conceptualised and articulated by rural people and the organization of care around formal mental hea

Author: Khalil Dabdoub July 29, 2026 Forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza [Image credit: UN] Introduction The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that in 2025, there were over 117 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people; this number has been growing year after year (UNHCR, n.d.-e). Forcibly displaced people include refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people

Author: Paul Gould July 28, 2026 [Image credit: Tomáš Malík/Pexels] Introduction Why are children particularly affected by the continued usage of greenhouse gas-emitting energy sources? Because current protective mechanisms are insufficient to meet the needs of our young people. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a treaty adopted in 1990 that establishes a global framework to ensure the ongoing safety of children’s rights. All of the then 196 eligible state parties