By Hannah Sim In the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015, an overarching goal was set to limit...

By Tahia Bristi In the tumultuous aftermath of the Bosnian War, the delicate equilibrium between punishment and mercy emerges as a...

By Rahul Ramakrishnan In pursuing justice for victims in international mass conflicts, the delicate balance between punishment and mercy...

By Arnav Raval Marked by bloodshed and numerous authoritarian regimes, the Guatemalan Civil War fundamentally redefined the nation’s...

By Alex Kho The Sudanese power conflict is a fierce rivalry emanating from Sudan’s past and clouding the country’s future. In the early...

By Kiran Yeh The truth doesn't drown in water and doesn't burn in fire - Ukrainian Proverb In the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam explosion...

By Matthew Lee On January 25th, 2011, thousands of protestors poured into the streets of Cairo demanding economic and political reform....

By Peter Grande For three gory decades, Catholic Republicans were pitted against Protestant Unionists in a violent sectarian conflict...

By Sara Davies Climate change will exponentially expand the global refugee crisis. By 2050, it is predicted that the number of people...

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...

By Hannah Sim Today, there are 890,000 displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar “living” in Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee…; Reid; Khan et...

By Raana Forgah “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck...

By Robert Cook A flash appears in the distance, evidence of another village burning, a place where people lived and loved, now...

By Irene Cho With crop struggles, water scarcity, and overall less resources threatening livelihoods and already displacing twenty...

By Andrew Edelmann Displacement is no longer linear. With the sheer scope of today’s refugee crisis and the widespread emergence of mass...

By Aidan Gouley As the rest of the world enjoys the highest standard of living in human history, 80 million people remain displaced due...

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...

By Eric Han The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met last month to hear Myanmar’s...

By Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M. Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter under a destroyed highway It was 5 am on February 24 when an explosion woke...

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...

By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...

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...

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

By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...

By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...

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

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

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

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...

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

By Zoe Lee In order to confront the genocide of the Rohingya, we must recognize the compounding factors that ultimately engender...

By Madelyn Fried A boy sits in a rusted chair on the border of Myanmar with a screwdriver and toothbrush in hand. He fixes phones for...

By Aruna Das The word “genocide” is younger than three of my grandparents. A Polish lawyer coined the term in 1944 during Nazi Germany’s...

By Hana Kim In the wake of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proposed—a vow to never allow the...

By Mahiul Bhuiyan Former U.S. President Barack Obama once said in an interview, “When you see a genocide, whether it's in Rwanda or...

By Emily Hollander Genocides are bred in a cesspool of contradictions. Their perpetrators thrive in inconsistencies, using them to build...