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AISU Editorial
25 jun 202113 minuten om te lezen
Frontex: Complicity in Human Rights Violations Along the European Union’s External Borders
Since the 2015 migratory crisis Europe's borders have been a topic of debate, reports have been surfacing on illegal pushbacks by Frontex.
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AISU Editorial
10 jun 202113 minuten om te lezen
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Context from the 1900s to 2021
This article aims to provide context to the Israel-Palestine conflict. It sets out the history of the region and explains the current events
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AISU Editorial
28 feb 20216 minuten om te lezen
Myanmar: The History of a Winding Road to Freedom
Historical overview of the governing in Myanmar.
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AISU Editorial
24 jan 20218 minuten om te lezen
“We don’t come to consume but we come to contribute.” A Conversation with a Refugee living on Lesbos
This article was created in conversation and cooperation with a person who had been living in Moria since 2019.
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AISU Editorial
1 dec 20204 minuten om te lezen
LGBTQ+ Rights in Turkey Under Threat: Activism is Silenced by Force and by Law
The Write4Rights campaign demands acquittal of charges for students who were raising their voices for defending the LGBTQ+ community.
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AISU Editorial
25 nov 20205 minuten om te lezen
Women in the Driver's Seat: the Current Situation in Saudia Arabia
Saudi Arabia is working on its image regardings womens rights. Women are receiving more freedoms, yet inequality and oppression remains.
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AISU Editorial
20 nov 20204 minuten om te lezen
Eye for an Eye: Police Brutality in Chile
The Write4Rights campaign is asking for justice for police brutality victims in Chile, but what does that entail?
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AISU Editorial
20 mei 20204 minuten om te lezen
Human rights in Egypt: Corona Crisis and detainees
By Claudia Ionita “Covid-19 has peeled away the last fig leaf covering Egypt’s grossly unjust pretrial detention system by eliminating...
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AISU Editorial
20 mei 20203 minuten om te lezen
The rights to adequate housing: a global crisis
By Lieke Kuiper The right to adequate housing is a basic human right for everybody: it is universally applicable and it is found in as...
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AISU Editorial
12 mei 20204 minuten om te lezen
Corona threatening the right at education: how Corona might enlarge the gap between poor and rich
By Lieke Kuiper Researchers in the US discovered the existence of a so-called ‘homework gap’ when they studied how children adapt to home...
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AISU Editorial
29 apr 20202 minuten om te lezen
The disappearing right: on abortion and corona in the US
By Claudia Ionita My body, my choice: While many nowadays consider the battle over the right of abortion to be already won, recent events...
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AISU Editorial
16 apr 20204 minuten om te lezen
Iran and Coronavirus: how the country is struggling with the virus on several aspects
By Lieke Kuiper Officially Iran counts 67.286 people infected with the Coronavirus. Officially it is the 7th country with the most...
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AISU Editorial
8 apr 20204 minuten om te lezen
Restrictions on Academic Freedom and Autonomy in Venezuela
By Maayke Vossen Amnesty International defines the right to academic freedom as the right to freely conduct scientific research, and to...
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AISU Editorial
18 jan 20203 minuten om te lezen
Rwanda: leading the world towards gender-equality
By Lieke Kuiper In many international treaties on human rights, it is forbidden to discriminate based on gender. For example the...
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AISU Editorial
21 dec 20195 minuten om te lezen
‘The world has failed once again’: Gambia takes Myanmar to court
By Lieke Kuiper The 10th of December, 2019: Human Rights Day. A day on which the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...
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