Re-Conceptualizing the “Enemy”

 By Michael Blashko In my time here at the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, I feel as though I...
July 23, 2015

Humera writing from Human Rights Watch

By Humera Jabir I am almost two months into my internship at Human Rights Watch and am entering the last third. I have...
July 21, 2015

Travailler de concert

Par Michel Bélanger-Roy Liste de choses que je ne m’attendais pas à faire lors d’un stage en droits humains au Cameroun : #1 -...
July 21, 2015

Measuring Peace: Highlights from the Global Peace Index Launch

By Laura MacLean This summer, the One Earth Future Foundation (OEF) and the Institute for Economics and Peace co-hosted a very exciting event...
July 21, 2015

Pirates and fraternities, Colorado and the high seas

By Marilyn Venney Telling people that I'm spending the summer in Boulder, Colorado while interning at an organization that works to combat piracy...
July 21, 2015

Akwesasne: A Border Community

By Anna Gilmer I wake up, get ready for work, and am on my way to Akwesasne, a large Indigenous community straddling the...
July 20, 2015

Resisting the Civil Society Kill Switch

By Brodie Noga The past month has been a blur of activity and emotion as LICADHO has, alongside numerous others, led a campaign...
July 17, 2015

It starts and ends with the community

By Margherita Cinà A few days ago I was visiting Kabarole District in Western Uganda and I was talking to a local man...
July 14, 2015

“I came too far, I can’t give up.”

- Pirate in Captain Phillips By: Carly Meredith It's starting to feel like I've been here forever. I am not saying that the time feels...
July 9, 2015

What Rachel and Robert Want: How Should The Law Approach Legal Capacity?

By Max Zidel Imagine for a moment that you have a 20 year-old sister named Rachel who has severe intellectual disabilities. While Rachel...
July 9, 2015

Tensions entre droit coutumier et common law

Par Olivier Beaubien Cela fait maintenant plus de cinq semaines je vis à Lusaka, capitale de la République de la Zambie, pour un...
July 6, 2015

Recent developments in international criminal law

By Vallery Bayly The fight against impunity is central to many aspects of ASFC's work. In Guatemala, in Haiti, in Colombia, in Mali,...
July 5, 2015