Category: Human Rights

Blood Diamonds: The Dazzling Dilemma in the DRC

Post author By Marianna Schroeder
Post date May 26, 2020
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Embedded within engagement rings, necklaces, and bracelets around the world, diamonds symbolize a $81.4 billion-a-year industry juxtaposing Afican mines containing 65% of the world’s diamonds, and elegant jewelry retail salerooms. Rooted within these jewels, however, are political strife and human rights violations surrounding the process of their manufacture in Angola, Sierra Leone, and most prevalently the Democratic Republic of […]

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Human Rights

S.Res. 150: A Human Rights Victory for Armenian Americans

Post author By Harut Tatulyan
Post date March 11, 2020
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On March 20, 2019, Alabama governor, Kay Ivey allowed the state of Indiana to become the 49th state to recognize the atrocities carried out by the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1923 as genocide [1]. This marks an additional step towards the United States’ recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, even with the acknowledgement by the last […]