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President Obama recently presented a nine-page plan to Congress outlining his goal of closing Guantanamo Bay detention center and ideas for relocation of remaining detainees. According to this plan, 35 of the 91 current detainees would be transferred to foreign countries. The other 56 detainees would be sent to a variety of prisons and military…
On October 29th, 2015, Beijing announced the nullification of the nigh universally loathed “One Child Policy” as part of the regime’s new Five Year Plan. Effective immediately, each couple will be allowed two children, from a statement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The intended purpose of the policy course reversal is to counterbalance the…
Despite affirmation in its National Human Rights Action Plan of the Republic of Kazakhstan 2009-2012, The Kazakhstan government has consistently violated a wide array of its citizens’ human rights. According to the Human Rights Watch, “Kazakhstan heavily restricts freedom of assembly, speech, and religion, and torture remains a serious problem” and “in 2014, authorities closed…
For the past few years, our news headlines have been rife with stories detailing the migration of thousands of people fleeing repressive regimes, wars, violent armed groups, and economic strife. In light of the most recent and ongoing migration crisis in Europe, it is important to reflect on these recent migration and refugee crises that…
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Consider the word “crisis” in the modern world. Which would be the first geographical region that comes to your mind when you think about “crisis”? Maybe not Europe? At least, perhaps not until recent months, when the region became plagued with two major crises — the financial one caused by our Greek friends, and the…
Introduction The world has undergone several dramatic changes in recent decades. Globalization has made our nations increasingly integrated and interdependent. In spite of augmented international economic and political integration, the world continues to endure poverty, inequality, political volatility, and environmental degradation. Moreover, climate change threatens the food and water supply and places the lives of…
French military intervention in its former military colonies, for better or for worse, is nothing new. The country’s track record of intervention is by no means a clean state, one example being the 1994 Rwanda Genocide which the country has been accused of not preventing. But France’s deployments of troops last year into Mali and…
A few weeks back this blog reported on the increased presence that the United States was planning in the northern Uganda region. There was also a mention of this man who wants to catch Kony on his own and has raised another $2000 dollars to do so since last reported on this blog. While nothing has come to fruition…
A hundred Somalilanders turned their eyes to me as I took the microphone from the woman next to me. I tapped her shoulder and waited for her to finish hurling accusations at the President of Somaliland, who nervously shifted in his seat at the front of the room. “There is killing happening everywhere in that…
By Emmy Mildenberg CMC ’14 One of the most memorable aspects about travelling and living in east Africa is their television programming. While many of the shows are hard to watch without rolling on the floor laughing, the television culture is changing rapidly. The slapstick comedy that is the accepted norm (as is a dearth…