by Hailey York | Aug 11, 2022 | Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
Introduction It is no secret border security has grown stricter at the United States-Mexico border recently. The U.S. has roughly 700 miles of fencing along the border, record levels of immigration and customs staff, and exponential growth in immigration spend.1...
by Brianna Gehring | Jul 19, 2022 | Belize, Our Stories, Stories from the Field, Uganda
There are an estimated 24.9 million people in human trafficking today. While trafficking can and does happen everywhere, studies show that the majority of victims are concentrated in places where government policies and systems are less effective at enforcing...
by Taylor King | Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING Who is responsible for atrocities like genocide? Who has jurisdiction to push back when human beings are stripped of their rights? Who wields the power to hold dictators accountable to a higher law? Until the formation of the United Nations, the answer...
by Megan Abrameit | Sep 20, 2018 | #InContext
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, Jewish family in Germany. Though born in Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879, he spent most of his childhood in Munich. Even as a child, Einstein was fascinated by science. He credits seeing a compass as the...
by Megan Abrameit | Apr 11, 2018 | #InContext
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Henrik Ibsen was a revolutionary without ever picking up a sword. He was born March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway. Gripped by poverty, at age 15, Ibsen moved to a coastal town where he worked as an apothecary’s apprentice and studied to get into...
