Human Rights, Prison Reform COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration: How a Pandemic Normalized Solitary Confinement in the U.S. THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from

THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from 60,000 inmates to a staggering 300,000, suggesting that solitary confinement is headed toward a path of

When the US killed Iranian General Quasem Soleimani in an airstrike in Iraq at the start of this year, most press coverage focused on the resulting rise in tensions and potential repercussion for US-Iranian relations. Yet General Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was not the

Uncategorized The “Ku Klux Klan”-Like Threat to Chile’s Mapuche People Mapuexpress On the night of August 1, an organized group of people with sticks, stones, and torches gathered in the central square of the southern city of Curacautín (about 600 km south of Santiago) aiming to end the

Uncategorized Constitutional Reform in Chile and the Participation of Indigenous Peoples Mapuexpress The Chilean Constitutional Convention would be the first, among all the continent’s constituent assemblies, to include direct representatives of the nine Indigenous Peoples recognized in Chile’s 1993 Indigenous Law 19,253. As a result of large

Human Rights, Iran, Women's Rights Honor Killings and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran Written by H. S. A flower faded while blooming: Romina, a 14 year old Iranian girl, was beheaded by her father with a farming sickle.                                    He thought Romina had ashamed the family

Rayhaneh Ameri, whose death was caused by profuse bleeding (Source: Iran International) Despite international outcries, the Islamic Government has attempted to cover-up the sentencing reduction of the perpetrator by asserting that Rayhaneh’s father killed her with an iron bar, which contradicted initial news coverage. Furthermore, Colonel Yousefi insisted that

Opinions, Police Violence Why We Need to Change the Law Enforcement System America has a problem: police brutality. In 2017 alone, American police killed 1,147 people.1 Police – whose job it is to protect people – have killed 1,147 people.1 While individual police officers are responsible for the