By: Stacey Shenderov, November 7, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that industrial food systems, reliant on national and international supply chains, are fragile and can lead to further inequalities in local communities. Because millions suffered food scarcity during the COVID-19 pandemic, novel questions of food sovereignty rights have been raised worldwide. On November 2, […]
By: Robert Keilson, November 3, 2022 On October 8th, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognized a “safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment” as a human right for the first time in its history. Proposed by Costa Rica, the Maldives, Slovenia, and Switzerland, Resolution 48/13 was supported by “more than 1,300 civil society organizations […]
By: Liana Brown, April 25, 2022 Every day, people around the world are executed and sentenced to death as punishment for a variety of crimes – sometimes for acts that arguably should not even be criminalized.[1] However, this soon might change. On October 9th, 2021, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced that as part of […]
Frederick Kushmore III, October 29, 2021 During the Covid-19 Pandemic, countries took various strategies to combat the pandemic. One of the core aspects of this was a ‘lockdown’ where people were to stay at home and travel was restricted around the world. While all nations have public laws, there had not been a major pandemic […]
