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Human Rights
May 17, 2023
Decolonizing the narrative around constitutions, personal laws, and women’s rights
Many constitutions contain what are known as “clawback clauses,” which exempt personal law from their guarantees of nondiscrimination.
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Human Rights
April 25, 2023
Navigating today’s society as a Transgender Person
In this blog, Jet, a transmasculine nonbinary HRC student reflects on his experience coming out in high school, his life at University and the current legal targeting of LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S., specifically in Ohio.
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Human Rights
April 12, 2023
Human Rights Week 2023: Wrap Up
Human Rights Week 2023 focused on gender identity and gender equality around the world. Organized by students in the Human Rights Advocacy Group, this week had seven events about different topics relating to gender!
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Human Rights
March 16, 2023
Mébét Movie Screening and Roundtable on Child Marriage
The movie screening and roundtable event focused on the practice of childhood marriage in The Gambia and beyond. The film displayed both sides of culture, showing both its beauty and dangers of it. Following the film was a discussion with the director, Ousman Jarju, a child marriage survivor, Musu Bakoto Sawo, and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Professor Jamie Small.
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Human Rights
March 14, 2023
VOICES: Uniting Dayton for human rights
Tony Talbott writes for the Dayton Daily News Ideas & Voices about Uniting Dayton for Human Rights.
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Human Rights
March 08, 2023
When the Ferguson uprising came to Geneva
HRC Director of Applied Research and Learning, Dr Joel Pruce writes for Open Global Rights about how a shadow report presented to the Committee Against Torture brought police brutality in the US to the international human rights community.
Human Rights
February 27, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 4)
While lawfare may be a recent concept in legal academia, its use dates back generations in the United States. A prime example of lawfare in motion is the War on Drugs, a generational effort to disrupt minority communities under the mask of curbing drug usage. The War on Drugs failed to end drug usage in the United States, but it achieved substantial growth in the jail system, an increase unevenly made up of people of color.
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Human Rights
February 24, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 3)
The “reasonable person” standard used in US law since the 1800s is outdated, because it ignores issues of race and gender, and contributes to negative qualities of colorblindness in the legal community. This objective standard of rationality creates inequality in the legal field that affects many minorities.
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Human Rights
February 22, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 2)
In 2022, two million people are imprisoned in America and around 35% of them are Black men. A direct link exists between the American systems of slavery, forced convict labor and the modern mass incarceration of Black men.
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Human Rights
February 21, 2023
Law Student Insights on Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory Series (Part 1)
Critical race and feminist legal theory are academic concepts that deal with various issues and social constructs but cross over in one theory: intersectionality. You may have heard the term intersectionality discussed in the news and media, but do you really understand what intersectionality is and why it is important?
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