Journal 2/3

Jul 27, 2022

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...

Jul 4, 2022

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...

Jun 30, 2022

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...

Mar 24, 2022

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...

Mar 9, 2022

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...

Jan 22, 2022

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...

Jan 22, 2022

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...

Jan 22, 2022

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...

Jan 21, 2022

Returning Rohingya Refugees Home Safely

By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....

Jan 21, 2022

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,...

Jan 21, 2022

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...

Nov 9, 2021

The Keys to Successful Repatriation of the Rohingya

By Anab Khan Over 700,000 men, women, and children have been displaced from their ancestral home in the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis...

Oct 21, 2021

Advocating for Rohingya Voices, Health & Human Rights in Myanmar - Dr. Jen Leigh

By Kelly Su In this interview, Kelly Su (JS Scholar 2019) consults Myanmar research consultant Dr. Jennifer Leigh about her work and...

Oct 21, 2021

Words Carry Urgency in the Rohingya Genocide

By Fiona Neibart “Maggots.” “Rapists.” “Dogs.” These slurs—translated from Burmese and aimed at Rohingya—are among more than a thousand...

Oct 20, 2021

Women's Rights, Refugees & Genocide in Internat. Human Rights Law - Chaumtoli Huq

By Zubaidah Chowdhury In this interview, Zubaidah Chowdhury (JS Scholar 2018) talks to Human Rights Lawyer and Professor Chaumtoli Huq...

Oct 20, 2021

Higher Education & the Development of Refugee Communities - Kamal Ahmad

By Anab Khan In this interview, Anab Khan (JS Scholar 2019) talks to Kamal Ahmad about the complex and important relationship between...

Oct 20, 2021

To Assert Rohingya Humanity, Turn to the Arts

By Eric Han Gudar Mia, an eighty-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, with smoke-filled lungs, croaks an old Rohingya folk song. The...

Oct 20, 2021

What We Can Do to Help the Rohingya

By Yotam Peer Men, women, and children of all ages sit hunched together. Their clothes are raggedy, and they fill each hut and room to...

Oct 20, 2021

Covid, Rohingya Refugees, & Healthcare in South Asia - Dr. Ruhul Abid

By Tasnim Anika In this interview, Tasnim Anika (JS Volunteer 2020) talks to Dr. Ruhul Abid about his organization, Health & Education...

Oct 20, 2021

The Perils of Comparing Rwandan Dictatorship and Democratization to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

By Vincent Jiang The irony of the Rohingya crisis is that a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, in the words of UN High Commissioner...

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