The World's Forgotten Refugees
By Sara Davies Climate change will exponentially expand the global refugee crisis. By 2050, it is predicted that the number of people...
Lucy Fritzinger
The Disproportionate Impact of Climate Change on Displaced Populations
By Lucy Fritzinger Imagine a world in which your house only consists of a 10’x16’ room with five other people (Reid). The persistent leak...
Hannah Sim
Can Nature Re-place those whom it Displaced?
By Hannah Sim Today, there are 890,000 displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar “living” in Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee…; Reid; Khan et...
Raana Forgah
Crushed, but not Destroyed: Can Social Media and Music Transform Lives?
By Raana Forgah “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck...
Robert Cook
Sink or Swim?
By Robert Cook A flash appears in the distance, evidence of another village burning, a place where people lived and loved, now...
Irene Cho
Refugees and their Economic Impact
By Irene Cho With crop struggles, water scarcity, and overall less resources threatening livelihoods and already displacing twenty...
Andrew Edelmann
Damming the Rising Tides of Chronic Instability
By Andrew Edelmann Displacement is no longer linear. With the sheer scope of today’s refugee crisis and the widespread emergence of mass...
Aidan Gouley
Defending Dignity: Redefining Refugee Legal Protections
By Aidan Gouley As the rest of the world enjoys the highest standard of living in human history, 80 million people remain displaced due...
Anab Khan
One Year Later, America Cannot Forget Afghanistan
By Anab Khan As the 2021 Taliban takeover of Kabul reaches its 1-year anniversary, complete media silence on Afghanistan reigns, even...
Zoe Lee
What are the Effects of Criminalizing Abortion? Comparing the US and Abroad
By Zoe Lee On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and along with it Planned Parenthood v. Casey on a...
Zoe Lee
Burma, Ukraine, and the Risk of Short-Sightedness
By Zoe Lee Ms. Lee is a Program Associate at Burma Task Force and a fellow of the NYU Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights The...
Eric Han
The UN’s Highest Court Might Convict Myanmar. It Won’t Be Enough.
By Eric Han The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met last month to hear Myanmar’s...
Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M.
5 Ways for American High School and College Students to Support Ukrainians
By Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M. Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter under a destroyed highway It was 5 am on February 24 when an explosion woke...
Kevin Tang
John Sexton Essay Contest 2019: Kevin Tang
By Kevin Tang “We are scared to return to Myanmar because if we go, they will kill us.” Chilling, these words uttered by Rohingya refugee...
Zubaidah Chowdhury
Exodus: Will Anyone Help the Rohingya Refugees?
By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...
Kelly Su
Resolving Human Rights through Demilitarization and Equal Representation
By Kelly Su The cries of the Rohingya wail, “Please, I have no place to call home and nowhere to go. I am only a displaced person denied...
Jason Tan
Returning Rohingya Refugees Home Safely
By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....
Elena Li
John Sexton Essay Contest 2018: Elena Li
By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...
Iftida Faria
Cries of the Rohingya Mother, Unseen, Unheard
By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...