Women recorded holding her hijab aloft in protest in December 2017, via video on BBC. On International Women’s Day this year, three women were arrested in Iran. They were protesting the laws that make it compulsory to wear a hijab at all times by taking theirs off in a Tehran subway. The women were subsequentlyContinue reading “Women’s Protests in Iran and the Relationship between Social Media and Activism”
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Opinion: A Guide to Boycotting Human Rights Violations
Protests against Nike after a factory collapse in Bangladesh. Image courtesy of Reuters via Business Insider. Consumer boycotting is one of the most obvious, and perhaps easiest, forms of protest. My introduction to boycotting came early, via my mother, who refuses to buy Nestlé or Nike products and proudly proclaims to have never stepped footContinue reading “Opinion: A Guide to Boycotting Human Rights Violations”
What’s Next? The U.S. Women’s National Team’s Fight for Equal Pay
The U.S. Women’s National Team The United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) just celebrated a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands, winning their fourth World Cup. This win broke their own previous record of most wins in the tournament’s history; Germany trails them with two total World Cup wins. But despite their record-breaking achievements, one glaringContinue reading “What’s Next? The U.S. Women’s National Team’s Fight for Equal Pay”
What's Next? The U.S. Women's National Team's Fight for Equal Pay
The U.S. Women’s National Team The United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) just celebrated a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands, winning their fourth World Cup. This win broke their own previous record of most wins in the tournament’s history; Germany trails them with two total World Cup wins. But despite their record-breaking achievements, one glaringContinue reading “What's Next? The U.S. Women's National Team's Fight for Equal Pay”
Artists: the Human Rights Activists of Our Time
Ostensibly, it might sound surprising that artists and the art world has anything to do with human rights issues, or even politics in general. The commonplace image of an artist is of a rather self-involved hippy who creates art for its own sake; surely, Marcel Duchamp exhibiting a urinal is not a demonstration of aContinue reading “Artists: the Human Rights Activists of Our Time”
New Technologies and Human Rights: What We Can Do
With the internet and new technologies integrating and transforming nearly every aspect of our daily lives, new forms of expression have emerged. From online petitions to #hashtags and viral trends, new technologies are firmly engraining themselves in our everyday organization and association, gradually revolutionizing the way we take action. Concurrently, the way human rights issuesContinue reading “New Technologies and Human Rights: What We Can Do”
#BringBackOurGirls
Anyone who was paying close attention to either world news or social media back in April will remember a campaign called #BringBackOurGirls. It has been nearly six months since almost 300 schoolgirls were abducted from the Chibok boarding school in northern Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The media covered this story extensively,Continue reading “#BringBackOurGirls”
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